Anne Born
{{Short description|British poet, local historian, writer and translator}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
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Anne Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet, local historian, writer and translator.
Biography
Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in south London on 9 July 1924. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the Second World War, and taught Morse code at the SOE at Grendon 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 in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
She began writing poetry and, at the same time, began translating Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.
In the 1980s, she moved to Salcombe, Devon, where she wrote books on local history.Amanda Hopkinson, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/14/anne-born-obituary Anne Born obituary], The Guardian, 14 August 2011 She founded the poetry publisher Overstep Books in 1992, and ran it until 2008.[http://www.overstepsbooks.com/poets/anne-born/ Overstep Books: Anne Born]
Recognition
For her translation of Per Petterson's Ut og stjæle hester as Out Stealing Horses, she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award.Alwyn Marriage, [http://www.overstepsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Anne-Borns-obituary.pdf Anne Born: 9 July 1924 – 17 July 2011], Kingsbridge Gazette, 12 August 2011
In 2013, the Poetry Society established a prize, the Anne Born Prize, in her memory. In its first year it was judged by Penelope Shuttle and won by Suzanne Batty.[http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/anneborn The Anne Born Prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519055342/http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/anneborn/ |date=19 May 2014 }}. Poetry Society. Accessed July 2014.
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Category:University of Copenhagen alumni
Category:Danish–English translators
Category:Norwegian–English translators
Category:20th-century English poets
Category:20th-century English women writers
Category:20th-century British translators
Category:English women non-fiction writers