Name Keith Bosley | Role Poet | |
Books A Chiltern hundred, The three houses, The possibility of angels, Book of Oriental Verse, Stations Similar People Elias Lonnrot, Esa Holopainen, Tomi Koivusaari, Olli‑Pekka Laine, Kim Rantala | ||
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Keith Bosley (born 1937) is a British poet and language expert.
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Bosley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow (1949 – 1956) and the Universities of Paris, Caen, and Reading (1956 – 1960), where he read French.
In 1961 he began working for the BBC, mainly as an announcer on the World Service, but the work for which he perhaps best known is as a poet and translator. In 1978 he was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Translators. In 1980 he became a Corresponding Member of the Finnish Literature Society, and a year later he undertook a Middle East lecture tour for the BBC and the British Council. Other accolades include first prizes in the British Comparative Literature Association's translation competition in 1982 and, in the same year, in the English Goethe Society's translation competition. In 1991 he was made a Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
Bosley retired from the BBC in 1993 and lives in Berkshire. In 2001 he was awarded a pension from the Royal Literary Fund, and continues in his role as organist at St Laurence's Church, Upton-cum-Chalvey. He is married to harpist Satu Salo and has three sons, Ben, Sebastian and Gabriel.
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Other works include contributions to numerous journals in the UK, France, Finland and the USA, and authorship of hundreds of radio scripts including The Poetry of Europe (nine 30-min programmes, 1981), and The Kalevala (fifteen 15-min programmes, 1992).