Helgard Krause (born 7 April 1970) is a German publishing executive based in the United Kingdom. Born in

Pirmasens Pirmasens (; (also ''Bermesens'' or ''Bärmasens'')) is an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. It was famous for the manufacture of shoes. The surrounding rural district was called ''Landkreis Pirmasens ...

, she obtained her MA at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

and worked in the British publishing industry for

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and

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, before working as Head of Sales & Marketing for the Welsh Books Council (now the Books Council of Wales). She was head of the

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from 2010 to 2017 and has been Chief Executive of the Books Council of Wales since 2017.

Biography

Helgard Krause was born on 7 April 1970 in

, the daughter of locally-renowned photographers Karin and Manfred Horst Krause. During her youth, her favorite book was '' Ronja, the Robber's Daughter''. A 1988 winner of the , she was educated at and

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

(where she obtained her in political science in 1993), before moving to the United Kingdom to attend the

(where she obtained her MA in English Literature in 1994). Krause's first publishing job was as a European sales representative for

(1995-1998), with a one-year stint in Russia. After working at

as a sales and rights manager, she was promoted to Head of Sales & Rights for their imprints Rockport Publishers and RotoVision in 2000. In 2005, she left The Quarto Group for

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in 2005, where she was Head of Sales & Marketing until 2009. In 2010, Krause became head of the

, and in 2017, she stepped down and returned to the Books Council of Wales to become their Chief Executive. Krause was appointed

Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales The Learned Society of Wales () is a national academy, learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the Welsh nation. The Learned ...

in 2019. In July 2020, she was elected to the

Gorsedd Cymru Gorsedd Cymru (), or simply the Gorsedd (), is a society of Welsh-language poets, writers, musicians and others who have contributed to the Welsh language and to public life in Wales. Its aim is to honour such individuals and help develop and p ...

as a Green Robe for her services to the arts. Krause is openly gay. She married Billy Goodfellow in 2011. As of 2020, she lived in Aberaeron. In 2011, Krause described herself as a "converted Welshie".

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