Anne Born | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Rosemary Cookes (1924-07-09)9 July 1924 London, England |
| Died | 27 July 2011(2011-07-27) (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Poet, local historian, writer and translator |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable works | Out Stealing Horses (translation) |
| Notable awards | |
| Spouse | Povl Born |
| Children | Conrad, Christopher, Caroline, Crispin |
Anne Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet, local historian, writer and translator.
Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in south London on 9 July 1924. She joined theFirst Aid Nursing Yeomanry during theSecond World War, and taughtMorse code at theSOE atGrendon Underwood,Bucks, where she met Povl Born, a Danish air force pilot. In 1946 they married and moved to Copenhagen, where she studied English literature at the university. She became fluent inDanish,Norwegian, andSwedish.
She began writing poetry and, at the same time, began translating Scandinavian writers into English, such asHans Christian Andersen,Karen Blixen,Jens Christian Grøndahl,Per Petterson, Michael Larsen,Janne Teller,Stig Holmas,Carsten Jensen,Sissel Lie,Henrik Stangerup, andKnud Hjortø.
In the 1980s, she moved toSalcombe, Devon, where she wrote books on local history.[1] She founded the poetry publisher Overstep Books in 1992, and ran it until 2008.[2]
For her translation ofPer Petterson'sUt og stjæle hester asOut Stealing Horses, she won theIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize and theInternational Dublin Literary Award.[3]
In 2013, thePoetry Society established a prize, the Anne Born Prize, in her memory. In its first year it was judged byPenelope Shuttle and won by Suzanne Batty.[4]
