Cecil Bødker (27 March 1927 – 19 April 2020[1]) was a Danish writer and poet, most known for young adult fiction books about the character "Silas".
For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1976.
In 1961 she debuted with the collection of novellas Øjet (The Eye), all treating the condition of human existence estranged from nature.
[2][3] In Denmark she won the annual Danish Critics Prize for Literature (Kritikerprisen) in 1961[5] and won the Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) in 1968 for Silas og den sorte hoppe.
[7] The English-language edition of Leoparden (1970), translated by Gunnar Poulsen and published by Atheneum Press in 1976, won the annual Batchelder Award from the American Library Association as the "children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States".