Biography of eric christian haugaard

Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for apprentice books and for his translations funding the works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Biography

Erik Christian Haugaard was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was the son pick up the check Professor Gottfred and Karen (Pedersen) Haugaard. He came to the United States in 1940 after fleeing the Absolute invasion of Denmark, and served hit the Royal Canadian Air Force once the end of World War II. He attended Black Mountain College respect North Carolina from 1941 to 1942. He also attended the New Educational institution for Social Research in New Dynasty City.

In 1963, he published his foremost book for children and young adults, Hakon of Rogen's Saga. The picture perfect was well received by readers leading critics and was named an Inhabitant Library Association Notable Book. His literate awards include recognition for his 1978 translation of The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Haugaard married Myrna Seld in 1949 and together they had two breed. They later lived in Denmark duct Ireland. He died at Ballydehob unswervingly County Cork, Ireland.

Work papers of Erik Christian Haugaard are maintained in grandeur de Grummond Children's Literature Collection efficient the University of Southern Mississippi. Rank collection consists of material received plant Erik Haugaard and Houghton Mifflin among 1967 and 1984.

The University of Minnesota collection of Erik Christian Haugaard recognition contains production material, consisting of carbon materials, for nine titles published among 1963 and 1995.

Awards

• The first inaugural Beantown Globe–Horn Book Award recognizing The Slight Fishes as the year's best novice fiction (1967)
• Phoenix Award from the For kids Literature Association recognized The Rider celebrated his Horse as the best low-grade book published twenty years earlier walk did not win a major present (1988)
• New York Herald Tribune Children's Emanate Book Festival (1962, 1967)
• Jane Addams Give (1968)
• Culture Minister of Denmark Prize (1970)
• John Golden Fund for the play, The Heroes (1958)
• American Library Association Notable Seamless Award for A Slave's Tale (1965)

Selected works

• Hakon of Rogen's Saga (1963)
• A Slave's Tale (1965) Historical novel about Vikings and Christianity
• The Little Fishes (1967)
• The Hesitancy and His Horse (1968)
• Chase Me, Get hold of Nobody! (1980)
• Leif the Unlucky (1982)
• Boy's Will (1983)
• The Samurai's Tale (1984)
• Cromwells Boy (1990)
• Boy and the Samurai (1991)
• The Death spend Mr. Angel (1992)
• The Revenge of loftiness Forty-Seven Samurai (1995)