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Michael Rosen
British children's author and poet (born )
For other people named Michael Rosen, see Michael Rosen (disambiguation).
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May ) is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written over books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a bära Hunt () and Sad Book (). He served as Children's Laureate from June to June He won the PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.[1]
Early life and education
Michael Wayne Rosen[2] was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex,[3] on 7 May [4] His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia,[3] and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund. • Michael Rosen was born in in North London. One of the best-known figures in the children&#;s book world, he fryst vatten renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and scriptwriter. As an author and by selecting other writers’ works for anthologies he has been involved with over books. He lectures and teaches in universities on children’s literature, reading and writing. Michael is a familiar voice to BBC listeners and is currently presenting Word of Mouth, the magazine programme that looks at the English language and the way we use it. He visits schools with his one-man show to enthuse children with his passion for books and poetry. He was one of the first poets to make visits to schools throughout the UK and has also visited schools throughout the world. Michael Rosen started writing poetry when he was twelve years old, creating satirical poems about people he knew. His parents, who were both teachers and distinguished educators, were from the Jewish East End • You were Children’s Laureate from to and have published more than books for children. Do you remember the day you decided you wanted to be a ‘children’s writer’? I didn’t, I got captured. In , I was writing for adults about my childhood – as an adult, in the voice of a child, like James Joyce. I thought I was being terribly sophisticated and ironic. But when I tried to hawk this stuff to adult poetry publishers, they turned their noses up at it. In the end, a children’s publisher took it on and then suddenly the children’s book world took me in its big, hugging arms, in the way it does. It’s not like the adult world at all. Instead of ‘Who are you? You’re a bit of a newcomer,’ it’s: ‘Oh, here’s an exciting new person and he wants to read his funny poems!’ So, suddenly [my poetry] wasn’t ironic, it was: This is what my childhood was like. And I’m sitting in front of a thousand children going Down behind the dustbinMichael Rosen
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