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British children's author and poet (born 1946)

For other people named Michael Rosen, see Michael Rosen (disambiguation).

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.^[1]

Early life and education

Michael Wayne Rosen^[2] was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex,^[3] on 7 May 1946.^[4] His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia,^[3] and his family had connections to The Wo