Cecil Bødker
Cecil Bødker was a Danish writer and poet, most known for young adult fiction books about the character "Silas". For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1976.
Biography
Bødker was born in Fredericia, Denmark in 1927.In 1955 she had her first poems published under the pseudonym Cecil Skar. In 1961 she debuted with the collection of novellas Øjet, all treating the condition of human existence estranged from nature. The dystopian critique of civilization continued in Tilstanden Harley and Pap .
Awards
The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Bødker received the writing award in 1966.In Denmark she won the annual Danish Critics Prize for Literature in 1961 and won the Ministry of Culture's children book prize in 1968 for Silas og den sorte hoppe. In 1998 she won the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy for her body of work as a writer.
The English-language edition of Leoparden, translated by Gunnar Poulsen and published by Atheneum Press in 1976, won the annual Batchelder Award from the American Library Association as the "children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States".
Works
- 1955 Luseblomster
- 1956 Fygende heste
- 1956 Generationer
- 1959 Anadyomene
- 1961 Øjet
- 1964 Latter
- 1964 Samlede digte
- 1965 Tilstanden Harley
- 1967 Pap
- 1967 Silas og den sorte hoppe
- 1968 I vædderens tegn
- 1969 Silas og Ben-Godik
- 1969 Timmerlis
- 1970 Leoparden
- 1971 Dimma Gole
- 1971 Fortællinger omkring Tavs
- 1971 Kvinden som gik bort over vandet
- 1972 Salthandlerskens hus
- 1972 Silas fanger et firspand
- 1972 Skyld
- 1974 En vrangmaske i Vorherres strikketøj
- 1975 Barnet i sivkurven
- 1975 Da jorden forsvandt
- 1975 Far, mor og børn
- 1975 Jerutte fra Ræverød
- 1975 Jerutte redder Tom og Tinne
- 1976 Jerutte og bjørnen fra Ræverød
- 1976 Silas stifter familie
- 1977 Cecil Bødker – et udvalg
- 1977 Den udvalgte
- 1977 Jerutte besøger Hundejens
- 1977 Silas på Sebastianbjerget
- 1978 Silas og Hestekragen mødes igen
- 1979 Silas møder Matti
- 1980 Evas ekko
- 1980 Flugten fra Farao
- 1981 Tænk på Jolande
- 1982 Den lange vandring
- 1982 Syv år for Rakel
- 1983 Marias barn. Drengen
- 1984 Marias barn. Manden
- 1984 Silas – livet i bjergbyen
- 1985 Silas – de blå heste
- 1986 Silas – Sebastians arv
- 1987 Ægget der voksede
- 1988 Maria fra Nazaret
- 1988 Silas – ulverejsen
- 1989 Vandgården
- 1990 Hungerbarnet
- 1990 Malvina
- 1991 Jordsang
- 1992 Silas – testamentet
- 1993 Tørkesommer
- 1995 - men i hvert fald i live
- 1996 Fru Hilde
- 1997 Farmors øre
- 1997 Mens tid er
- 1998 Silas og flodrøverne
- 2001 Silas – fortrøstningens tid
- 2003 Siffrine