Editing Arthur Ransome (section)

==Awards and accolades==
Ransome won the inaugural [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] from the [[CILIP|Library Association]], recognising ''[[Pigeon Post]]'' in the Swallows and Amazons series as the year's best children's book by a [[British subject]].<ref name=medal1936>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011215536/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=119 Carnegie Winner 1936]. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [[CILIP]]. Retrieved 23 July 2012.</ref>
He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1953.<ref>{{cite book|last=Avery|first=Gillian|author-link=Gillian Avery|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, England|year=2004|chapter=Ransome, Arthur Michell (1884–1967)}}</ref> [[Durham University]] made him an honorary [[Honorary degree|Master of Arts]] (which he told Cape to ignore) and [[Leeds University]] made him an honorary [[Honorary degree|Doctor of Letters]] in 1952.<ref>[https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/research-spotlight/1518 Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)], University of Leeds Library</ref>

Translations of his books have been published in several languages and he became popular in many countries. Thriving Ransome appreciation societies exist in the [[Czech Republic]], and in Japan where the [[Arthur Ransome Club]] was founded in 1987. Czech astronomer [[Antonín Mrkos]] named an [[asteroid]] after the author ([[6440 Ransome]]). [[The Arthur Ransome Society]] founded in 1990 in the U.K. now has a worldwide membership.<ref>[https://allianceofliterarysocieties.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/n-to-r/ The Arthur Ransome Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903132054/https://allianceofliterarysocieties.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/n-to-r/ |date=3 September 2018 }}, Alliance of Literary Societies, May 2017</ref>
The Arthur Ransome Trust was launched in 2010 with the object of establishing a permanent Arthur Ransom Home for the study and appreciation Arthur Ransome's life and works.