Michael rosen poet biography project
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Literature as the driver of change: Michael Rosen opens IBBY International Congress in Trieste
17 October 2023
Michael Rosen is one of England’s most popular and well-known authors for children. He is a poet, writer, scriptwriter and television presenter. He is best known in Italy for “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”, but at least a dozen of his texts are currently available in Italian, translated by various publishing houses: Sinnos, Feltrinelli, Pulce. In the United Kingdom, more than 150 books have been published by him.
From 2007 to 2009, he was Children’s Laureate, a position that in his country is awarded every two years to illustrators or children’s authors who have distinguished themselves in the field of children’s literature and have contributed to supporting the rights of young people to have access to books and stories.
Rosen’s career and oeuvre have peculiar and interesting traits. Rosen openly declares his civil and social commitment, his militancy, his standing on the side of rights. His work – he currently runs a programme at the BBC on the English language and its use – is politically determined; he never fails to emphasise that he is the son of communist parents who saw education as a possibi
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Michael J. Rosen
American writer (born 1954)
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| Born | (1954-09-20) September 20, 1954 (age 70) Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
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Michael Rosen
Artist Biography
Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. His first degree in English Literature and Language was from Wadham College, Oxford and he went on to study for an MA at the University of Reading and a PhD at the former University of North London, now London Metropolitan. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised and teaches critical approaches to reading on an MA in Children’s Literature, having done the same at Birkbeck, University of London. He has taught on MA courses in universities since 1994. He was the Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.
Michael is also a popular broadcaster and has presented BBC Radio 4’s acclaimed programme about language, “Word of Mouth” since 1998, including lengthy interviews with Steven Pinker, Philip Pullman, David Walliams, Malorie Blackman, Raymond Antrobus, David Crystal, as well as regularly presenting documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3, including the Sony Gold Award-winning “On Saying Goodbye”, ‘Zola in Norwood’ (on Emile Zola’s exile in England) and in-depth programmes on the subjects of eg Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, the poetry of Roald Dahl, the po