2015
Meg Rosoff - ‘Do Not be Afraid to be Afraid’
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Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, educated at Harvard and St Martin’s College of Art in London, and worked in New York City for ten years before moving to England in 1989. She worked in publishing, journalism, politics and advertising before writing How I Live Now (released as a feature film starring Saoirse Ronan in 2013) at the age of 47. Her books have won or been shortlisted for 20 international book prizes, including the Carnegie medal, the Orange first novel prize, the Jugendliteraturpreis in Germany and the National Book Award in America. Picture Me Gone is her sixth novel. Meg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London with her husband and daughter.
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In a talk that ranged effortlessly from Goldilocks and the Tooth Fairy to Harry Potter and Albert Einstein, Meg left us in awe – but also inspired and empowered. Starting from her own particular connection with Philippa Pearce, she described how, having first met the octogenarian author as a “fawning middle-aged fan”, she went on to champion Pearce’s The Little Gentleman as a member of the Guardian Children’s Book Prize panel. Since the rest of the panel were not convinced that death was a suitable subject for children’s literature, it did not win.
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