Michael Rosen
British children's author and poet (born 1946) · United Kingdom · Writers
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Something wrong?Michael Wayne Rosen 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 more than 200 books for children and adults.
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Rosen in 2009
Rosen recording his poem "The Listening Lions" in 2014
Michael Rosen reciting a poem at a picnic organised by the Jewish Socialists' Group on Highbury Fields, 6 August 2023
Rosen at an anti-racism rally in London's Trafalgar Square in 2016
Michael Rosen at the 2017 Cheltenham Literature Festival signing his book The Disappearance of Émile ZolaIn their own words 10
, I think human life is absurd. I think it is completely, utterly absurd.
Respect is fatal, isn't it?
What possible objections can we have to anyone, anywhere, writing a book for children? After all, it's not terribly difficult.
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Michael Wayne Rosen 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 more than 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.
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Mark WilliamsAlso in We're Going on a Bear Hunt (2016)
J. K. RowlingBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
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