Keith Bosley
About Keith Bosley
Keith Anthony Bosley (16 September 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a British poet and translator.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 and newsreader 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 lived in Berkshire. In 2001 he was awarded a pension from the Royal Literary Fund, and continued in his role as organist at St Laurence's Church, Upton-cum-Chalvey until 2015. He was married to harpist Satu Salo and had three sons – Ben (from an earlier marriage), Sebastian and Gabriel.He died in a nursing home in Slough, Berkshire after a short illness.
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