Katharine Mary Briggs

**Katharine Mary Briggs** (8 Nuwamba 1898 - 15 Oktoba 1980) marubuciya ce kuma marubuciya 'yar Birtaniya, wadda ta rubuta *The Anatomy of Puck*, da kuma *littafin A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language* mai juzu'i huɗu, da kuma wasu littattafai daban-daban kan aljanu da tatsuniyoyi . Daga 1969 zuwa 1972, ta kasance shugabar ƙungiyar aljanu, wadda ta kafa wata kyauta da sunanta don tunawa da rayuwarta da aikinta. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Katharine Briggs a Hampstead, London, babbar 'ya'ya mata uku da suka rage ga Ernest Edward Briggs, wanda ya fito daga Yorkshire (iyalinsa sun yi nasara sosai a hakar kwal a Halifax da Wakefield ), da kuma Mary Cooper. Sauran 'yan'uwa mata biyu ana kiransu Winifred da Elspeth. Ernest mai zane ne mai launin ruwa wanda ke da sha'awar yanayin Scotland wanda sau da yawa yana ba wa 'ya'yansa labarai, wataƙila ya jawo sha'awar Katharine a gare su tsawon rai. Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Perthshire a 1911, inda Ernest ya gina gida, Dalbeathie House. Ernest ya mutu a can shekaru biyu bayan haka a 1913. Katharine ta fara zuwa Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford a 1918, ta sami digirin BA a 1922, sannan ta sami digirin MA a 1926.

Da ta dawo gida (saboda gadon kwal na iyalinta, da kuma sana'ar kasuwanci a Normantown, ba ta buƙatar neman aiki), ta fara rubutu da gudanar da wasannin kwaikwayo.&nbsp;– dukkan iyalin sun ji daɗin wasannin kwaikwayo, kuma abin sha'awa ne ga Katharine's a tsawon rayuwarsu&nbsp;– yayin da take karatun tatsuniyoyi da tarihin Ingilishi na ƙarni na 17. Ta sami digirin digirgir na uku tare da digirin digirgir kan tatsuniyoyi a cikin adabin ƙarni na 17 ( *Tatsuniyoyi a cikin Adabin Jacobean* ) bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ; a lokacin yaƙin, ta shagaltu da koyarwa a makarantar 'yan gudun hijira ta Poland da kuma aiki a reshen likitanci na WAAF .

Briggs ta ci gaba da shahara a matsayin mai rubuta tatsuniyoyi. Bayan littafinta na farko kan aljanu na Burtaniya, The Personnel of Fairyland, ta ci gaba da rubuta wasu littattafai da yawa kan aljanu da tatsuniyoyi, ciki har da The Anatomy of Puck da kuma littafinsa na gaba, Pale Hecate's Team (1962), An Encyclopedia of Fairies (1976), da kuma wasu littattafan yara da dama kamar The Legend of Maiden-Hair (littafinta na farko da aka buga) da kuma littattafan tatsuniyoyi Hobberdy Dick, da Kate Crackernuts . [1] An sake buga Kamus na Tatsuniyoyi na Burtaniya a cikin Harshen Turanci: Sashe na A: Tatsuniyoyi na Jama'a (1970) a cikin juzu'i uku a cikin 2011 a matsayin Tatsuniyoyi na Jama'a na Burtaniya, kuma Philip Pullman ya bayyana shi a cikin gabatarwarsa a matsayin cikakken kuma mafi iko na tarin tatsuniyoyi na Burtaniya da ke akwai.

A shekarar 1969 aka ba ta digirin digirgir a fannin adabi, kuma ta zama Shugabar Ƙungiyar Al'adu, wani muƙami da ta riƙe har zuwa 1972, wanda kuma ya sanya mata suna a matsayin lambar yabo. 

Briggs ta rayu a ƙarshen rayuwarta a Barn House da ke Burford a Oxfordshire,  kuma ta mutu tana da shekaru 82 a ranar 15 ga Oktoba, 1980 a St Margaret's da ke Cliffe .

## Gado
Kyautar Katharine Briggs Folklore kyauta ce ta shekara-shekara da ƙungiyar Folklore ta kafa don tunawa da rayuwarta da aikinta da kuma ƙarfafa nazarin tatsuniyoyi. 

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