Anne Rosemary Cookes Born (9 July 1924 - 27 July 2011), British

United Kingdom

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 poet

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, local historian

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, writer

Writer

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 and translator.

Biography

Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in the southern suburbs of London, and was much inclined to reading. During the second world war she joined the Fany, and worked teaching morse code at the SOE station at Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire. There she met Povl Born, a young pilot in the Danish air force; they married later, in 1946, and moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, 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, translated Scandinavian translators into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

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, Karen Blixen

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, Jens Christian Grøndahl

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, Per Petterson

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, Michael Larsen

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, Janne Teller

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, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen

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, Sissel Lie

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, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.

In the 1980s she moved to Salcombe

Salcombe

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, Devon

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, where she wrote books on local history.