Introduction
Keith Leopold is an Australian author of English, French and German language adventure novels for children and young adults, and German Language Reference books. He was born in East Maitland, NSW in 1920 and died in 1999.
Biography
Early life
Leopold completed a German Honours course at the University of Sydney in 1942. He went on to serve in Australian Special Intelligence and later joined the Department of External Affairs.
In 1946 he joined the German Department of the University of Sydney as academic staff, and in 1947 became head of German at Queensland University.
He travelled extensively in Europe, especially Germany and spent time living there. In 1973 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the study of German in Australia.
Awards
In 1985 When We Ran won the Avis Page awardfrom WAYBRA, the West Australian Young Readers Book Award for Highest ranked Australian book on the older readers' list.