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Michael Rosen

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Michael Rosen

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) 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 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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Born
Michael Wayne Rosen (1946-05-07) 7 May 1946 (age 79)Harrow, Middlesex, England
Occupation
Author, broadcaster, poet, activist, academic
Education
mw- Wadham College, Oxford (BA) University of Reading (MA) University of North London (PhD)
Period
1974–present
Genres
Children's literatureChildren's poetry
Notable awards
Children's Laureate 2007–2009 Fred and Anne Jarvis Award 2010 PEN Pinter Prize 2023
Spouses
mw- Elizabeth Steele (m. 1976; div. 1987) Geraldine Clark (m. 1987; div. 1997) Emma-Louise Williams
Children
5 (1 deceased)
Relatives
Harold Rosen (father) Connie Ruby Rosen née Isakofsky (mother)
Political party
Respect (2004–2015)

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Preceded byJacqueline Wilson
Preceded byJacqueline Wilson
Cultural offices
Preceded byJacqueline Wilson
Cultural offices
Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom 2007–2009
Cultural offices
Succeeded byAnthony Browne
Cultural offices
Preceded byJacqueline Wilson
Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom 2007–2009
Succeeded byAnthony Browne

References

  1. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/28/author-michael-rosen-wins-2023-pen-pinter-prize-for-fearless-body-of-work
  2. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/08/michael-rosen-realising-that-poetry-was-performance-was-my-eureka-moment-
  3. "Michael Rosen interview"
    http://www.writewords.org.uk/interviews/michael_rosen.asp
  4. MichaelRosen.co.uk
    https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/about/
  5. New Statesman
    http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/religion/2012/05/michael-rosen-confessions-accidental-communist
  6. Socialist Worker
    https://web.archive.org/web/20080815175207/http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=15688
  7. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/aug/04/teaching.schools
  8. Flickr
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/brize/14579532451/in/album-72157626987168853/
  9. "BBC Programme Index"
    https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/30?q=Connie+Rosen#top
  10. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it K
  11. "Harold Rosen: Writings on life, language and learning, 1958–2008" Archived 25 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Advanc
    https://www.ucl-ioe-press.com/ioe-content/uploads/2017/02/Harold-Rosen-Writings-on-Life-language-and-learning-AI-1.pdf
  12. Winchester College Society
    https://wincollsoc.org/news/the-trusty-servant-archive/16/16-The-Trusty-Servant-May-
  13. The Sunday Times
    https://web.archive.org/web/20130520131722/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5161225.ece
  14. Language and Literacy (Reproduced on the University of Alberta Website)
    http://www.langandlit.ualberta.ca/Fall2004/SteigelBainbridge.html
  15. Books for Keeps: The Children's Book Magazine
    http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/issues/51/27198
  16. Blacklist: The Inside Story of Political Vetting
    http://bilderberg.org/mi5bbc.htm
  17. "Michael Rosen tour highlights"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20081220024220/http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/podcasts/video/michael-rosen-tour-highlights
  18. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2014/apr/10/we-re-going-on-a-bear-hunt-michael-rosen-helen-oxenbury-video
  19. Guinness World Records
    http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/business-solutions/case-studies/walker-books
  20. "Chapter and verse: Michael Rosen on why it pays to study children's"
    https://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/chapter-and-verse-michael-rosen-on-why-it-pays-to-study-childrens-literature-1676118.html
  21. "A Materialist and Intertextual Examination of the Process of Writing a Work of Children's Literature"
    https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159106381.pdf
  22. Michael Rosen
    https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/middlesex-lecture/
  23. "Word of Mouth"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz
  24. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/24/booksforchildrenandteenagers.dinarabinovitch
  25. "Under the Cranes"
    http://underthecranes.blogspot.com/
  26. "East London on film, East End Film Festival"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120803012118/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/newsandviews/festivals/east-end-film-festival-2011.php
  27. "Michael Rosen: Why universities close down courses: my experience"
    http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-universities-close-down-courses-my.html
  28. "Michael Rosen"
    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/michael-rosen
  29. "Award-winning children's author joins Goldsmiths"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20131104224200/http://www.gold.ac.uk/news/pressrelease/?releaseID=1040
  30. Shakespeare Schools Foundation
    https://web.archive.org/web/20171211165434/https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons
  31. "Desert Island Discs: Michael Rosen"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093v8p
  32. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/23/so-they-call-you-a-pisher-michael-rosen-review
  33. www.thebookseller.com
    https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/profile-michael-rosen-i-don-t-think-i-realised-until-maybe-august-how-ill-i-d-been-1230607
  34. Scottish Poetry Library
    https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/these-are-hands/
  35. The Independent
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/michael-rosen-give-children-books-not-sats-910225.html
  36. The Times
    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/poetry-is-being-ruined-by-sats-says-michael-rosen-ex-laureate-j9pvzprnj
  37. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/23/dear-gavin-williamson-could-you-tell-parents-what-a-fronted-adverbial-is
  38. Michael Rosen's Blog
    http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/for-jeremy-corbyn.html
  39. Poets for Corbyn
    http://www.berfrois.com/uploads/2015/08/poets_for_corybn_v2_cover1.pdf
  40. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/28/poets-for-jeremy-corbyn
  41. The Jewish Chronicle
    http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/142553/anti-israel-activists-attack-jc-challenging-jeremy-corbyn
  42. "#JC4PM"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170701133711/http://jc4pmtour.com/
  43. The Daily Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12134051/Celebrities-to-tour-Britain-in-Jeremy-Corbyn-For-Prime-Minister-musical-show.html
  44. NME
    https://www.nme.com/news/music/new-letter-supporting-jeremy-corbyn-2568734
  45. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/vote-for-hope-and-a-decent-future
  46. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/coogan-klein-lead-cultural-figures-backing-corbyn-labour
  47. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/20/michael-rosen-condemns-loathsome-and-antisemitic-manipulated-image
  48. The Spectator
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/michael-rosen-faces-defamation-lawsuit/
  49. The Yorkshire Post
    https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/dr-peter-newbon-inquest-northumbria-university-lecturer-died-after-falling-off-bridge-over-a64-in-north-yorkshire-4091594
  50. www.therecusant.org.uk
    https://web.archive.org/web/20210805220241/https://www.therecusant.org.uk/emergency-verse/4543558626
  51. Republic.org
    https://web.archive.org/web/20090531162033/http://republic.org.uk/supporters/index.php
  52. Socialist Worker
    https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/19068/M
  53. "Ideas to change the world. Marxism 2010"
    https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/20658/M
  54. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/zadie-smith-michael-rosen-irvine-welsh-and-jeanette-winterson-sign-letter-calling-for-israel-boycott
  55. Royal Society of Literature
    https://rsliterature.org/fellows/michael-rosen/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/michael-rosen/
  56. "Michael Rosen" Archived 11 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Children's Laureate (childrenslaureate.org.uk). Booktrust
    https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-laureate/former-laureates/michael-rosen/
  57. BBC News
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6740389.stm
  58. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/09/gorilla-anthony-browne-childrens-laureate
  59. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/jun/09/michael-rosen-creativity-in-the-classroom-teaching
  60. "University News"
    http://www.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/webteam/shared/pdfs/universitynews/issue5.pdf
  61. "Children's Laureate Michael Rosen receives Honorary Doctorate of Letters"
    http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press-releases/2008/01/michaelrosen.htm
  62. Worcester News
    http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/3817938.University_of_Worcester_graduation___Wednesday__November_5/
  63. "Latest news: November 18"
    http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/
  64. "Michael Rosen's website"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20081120180443/http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk./
  65. NUT Annual Conference 2010 – Press Release
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120510073053/http://www.teachers.org.uk/node/11237
  66. "Michael Rosen – NTU Honorary Graduate – 22nd July 2010"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzVSK0M9k_M
  67. "Alumni Life – Institute of Education, University of London"
    http://www.ioe.ac.uk/studentInformation/30675.html
  68. "UWE Bristol: News"
    http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=2016
  69. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/feb/27/brighton-festival-2013-michael-rosen
  70. Action for Children's Arts
    https://www.childrensarts.org.uk/aca-news/michael-rosen-wins-the-2021-j-m-barrie-award/
  71. The Royal College of Nursing
    https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/uk-rcn-awards-honorary-fellowship-to-michael-rosen-following-powerful-speech-at-congress-090622
  72. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66028985
  73. English PEN
    https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/michael-rosen-awarded-pen-pinter-prize-2023/
  74. Publishing Perspectives
    https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/06/in-london-the-pen-pinter-prize-goes-to-michael-rosen/
  75. Times Series
    https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/23625992.muswell-hill-poet-michael-rosen-wins-pen-pinter-prize/
  76. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/11/imprisoned-uyghur-academic-named-2023-pen-international-writer-of-courage
  77. The Daily Telegraph
  78. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/06/michael-rosen-curiosity-is-the-key-to-life
  79. The Observer
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/27/poetry.features
  80. The Independent
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-here-to-paternity-tales-from-the-labour-ward-404866.html
  81. www.youtube.com
    https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelRosenOfficial/videos
  82. michaelrosen.co.uk
    http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/foradults_news.html
  83. YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/user/artificedesign/about
  84. "A YouTube Poop - that is a mash-up of another YouTube vid. There are now about 4000 YTPs on YouTube of the videos that @J0e_R0sen makes of my poems and stories. Some are very funny and innocent, some are obscene, some are defamatory, some are racist, some are anti-semitic"
    https://x.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1086608646434361344
  85. "Some are very funny. Some are not so funny but funny all the same. Some are naff. Some are foul, racist, antisemitic rubbish. I'm fond of the funny ones. I have tried to get the racist, antisemitic ones taken down"
    https://x.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1086606067042344960
  86. Diario AS
    https://mexico.as.com/mexico/2020/04/01/tikitakas/1585771224_998822.html
  87. GQ
    https://www.gq.com.mx/entretenimiento/articulo/tenebroso-video-que-canal-5-subio-a-twitter-que-significa
  88. Hull Daily Mail
    https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-teacher-michael-rosen-video-4884349
  89. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/13/michael-rosen-this-book-is-about-what-it-feels-like-to-nearly-die
  90. www.youtube.com
    https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelRosenOfficial/videos
  91. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/31/michael-rosen-very-poorly-but-stable-after-night-in-intensive-care
  92. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52783472
  93. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/23/author-michael-rosen-out-of-intensive-care-after-47-days
  94. "If you do entries for wikipedia and call yourself Dyaluk08, this is to tell you that you got this bit wrong: 'His wife had been told not to take him to hospital if possible, as part of the general advice to protect the NHS.' You've just made it up. See my entry on 'Talk'"
    https://x.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1454954146356994049
  95. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/06/michael-rosen-takes-first-steps-as-he-recovers-from-covid-19-coronavirus
  96. "Emma and family have been on the frontline in this, taking the strain, supporting, fielding the worry, chasing up on things. It's a huge load to bear and to keep going. They're number one"
    https://x.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1271211680421359616
  97. Sky News
    https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-author-michael-rosen-says-long-covid-gave-him-sandy-skin-and-sharing-his-experiences-helps-him-cope-12263256
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