Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 1956) is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award (2004), Michael L. Printz Award (2005), Branford Boase Award (2005) and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, Just In Case, won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in 2007. She was nominated for the award in 2011, but lost out to Patrick Ness.

Biography

Rosoff was born in Boston, MA in 1956, the second of four sisters.^[1] She attended Harvard University in 1974. After 3 years at Harvard she moved to England and studied sculpture at Central St. Martins in London, England. She returned to the United States to finish her degree in 1980, and later moved to New York City for 9 years, where she worked in publishing and advertising.

Aged 32,^[1] Rosoff returned to London and has lived there ever since. Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer.^[1] It won The Guardian Children's Fiction prize, the Michael L. Printz Award in the United States, and was shortlisted for a Whitbread Award in 2004. In 2005 she published a children's book, Meet Wild Boars, which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Her second novel, Just in Case, was published in 2006 and won the 2007 CILIP Carnegie Medal and Germany's Jugendliteraturpreis. What I Was was published on August 30, 2007, followed by two additional collaborations with Sophie Blackall: Wild Boars Cook and Jumpy Jack and Googily. Her fourth novel, The Bride's Farewell, was released in September, 2009.

The film of How I Live Now is currently in pre-production.

Bibliography

• How I Live Now (2004)
• Meet Wild Boars (2005)
• Just in Case (2006)
• What I Was (2007)
• Jumpy Jack and Googily (2008)
• Wild Boars Cook (2008)
• The Bride's Farewell (2009)
• Vamoose (2010)
• There Is No Dog (2011)

Meg Rosoff also wrote London Guide: Your Passport to Great Travel in the non-fiction category.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Pieces of Me". London: The Guardian. July 23, 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jul/23/piecesofme?picture=335893077. Retrieved May 12, 2010.  Retrieved on 2008-11-10.

Prizes and Awards

• 2004 How I Live Now — Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, winner
• 2005 How I Live Now — Michael L. Printz Award, (US) winner
• 2005 How I Live Now — Branford Boase Award, (first novel), winner
• 2005 How I Live Now — LA Times Book Prize, shortlisted
• 2005 How I Live Now — Whitbread Prize, shortlisted
• 2005 How I Live Now — Der Luchs des Jahres, winner
• 2006 How I Live now — Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, shortlisted
• 2007 Just In Case — Carnegie Medal in Literature, winner
• 2007 Just in Case — LA Times Book Prize, shortlisted
• 2007 Just in Case — Booktrust Teenage Prize, shortlisted
• 2007 Just In Case — Costa Book Awards, shortlisted
• 2008 Just In Case — Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, winner
• 2008 What I Was — Carnegie Medal in Literature, shortlisted
• 2008 What I Was — Costa Book Awards, shortlisted
• 2009 What I Was — New Angle Prize, shortlisted
• 2009 What I Was — Der Luchs des Jahres, winner
• 2010 The Bride's Farewell—YALSA Alex Award Winner
• 2011 The Bride's Farewell — Carnegie Medal in Literature, Shortlisted

External links

• Meg Rosoff at Macmillan
• Fantasticfiction entry for Meg Rosoff
• Author's website

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