Keith Bosley | |
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Born | Keith Anthony Bosley 16 September 1937 Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England |
Died | 24 June 2018 | (aged 80)
Occupation(s) | Poet, translator |
Honours | Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland |
Keith Anthony Bosley (16 September 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a British poet, translator, and radio broadcaster. Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, he studied French at university before starting his career at the BBC, where he worked primarily as a newsreader. Although he published three volumes of original poetry, Bosley is best known for his work as a translator. A polyglot, he claimed to have translated poetry to English from up to forty languages, and had published collections translated from Finnish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, and German.