Patricia Crampton

Patricia Crampton is a prize-winning British literary translator, including of children's literature.^[1] She studied at Oxford University and served as a translator at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. She has translated over 200 children's books and over 50 adult novels, winning many awards in the process.

Awards and Honours

• Won the 1999 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
• Won the 1987 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolph Frank
• Won the 1984 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
• Won the 1984 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Notable translations

• Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren - winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1984)^[2]
• Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer - winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (1984)
• No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolph Frank - winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1987)
• The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang - winner of the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (1999)
• The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl
• No Roof in Bosnia by Els de Groen

For further titles, see
Patricia Crampton's publications in the British Library catalogue
Patricia Crampton's profile on Worldcat
Patricia Crampton's profile on Goodreads

References