Meg Rosoff
American-British children's writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70
Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award, the Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist.
Meg Rosoff is read about 25 times a day, in 14 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2016Astrid Lindgren Memorial AwardAward2014Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2007Carnegie MedalAward2005Branford Boase AwardAwardMichael L. Printz AwardAward2004Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeAward1956Born16 October 1956
Awards
About this person
Her second novel, Just in Case, won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1956 · age 70
Where to find them
The same award as Meg
Nina BawdenBoth received Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Jon KlassenBoth received Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Walter Dean MyersBoth received Michael L. Printz AwardSiobhan DowdBoth received Carnegie Medal
Jean-Claude MourlevatBoth received Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Sharon CreechBoth received Carnegie Medal
Jon KlassenBoth received Astrid Lindgren Memorial AwardWalter Dean MyersBoth received Michael L. Printz AwardSiobhan DowdBoth received Carnegie MedalJean-Claude MourlevatBoth received Astrid Lindgren Memorial AwardSharon CreechBoth received Carnegie Medal