About Meg
Award Winning Author
Meg Rosoff grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold over one million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children’s Prize and the Printz Award in the US and was made into a film. Her subsequent six novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. Meg’s latest book for adults is Jonathan Unleashed. Her Middle Grade series about rescue dog McTavish, who rescues a chaotic family, is out now. Meg lives in London with her husband, their daughter and two dogs.
Jonathan Unleashed
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Awards
2004 Guardian Children’s Fiction PrizeHow I Live Now | http://www.theguardian.com/books/childrensfictionprize2004/0,14765,1263070,00.html
2004 Whitbread Children’s Book Award (shortlist)How I Live Now | http://www.theguardian.com/books/whitbread2004/0,15398,1347150,00.html
2005 Michael L. Printz Award (US)How I Live Now | http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/05printz
2005 Branford Boase Award (first novel)How I Live Now | http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/branfordboaseawd.html
2005 Der Luchs des JahresSo lebe ich jetzt (How I Live Now) | http://www.zeit.de/2005/45/KJ-Rosoff
2005 LA Times Book Prize (shortlist)How I Live Now | http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/press-releases/2005-03-10/
2005 Orange First Novel prize (shortlist)How I Live Now | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Award_for_New_Writers
2006 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (shortlist)So lebe ich jetzt (How I Live Now) | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Jugendliteraturpreis
2006 Costa Book Award (shortlist)Just In Case | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Costa_Book_Awards
2007 Carnegie MedalJust In Case | http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2007awards/carnegie_shortlist.php
2008 Deutscher JugendliteraturpreisWas Wäre Wenn (Just In Case) | http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2007awards/carnegie_shortlist.php
2007 LA Times Book Prize (shortlist)Just In Case | http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/press-releases/2007-04-27/
2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize (shortlist)Just In Case | http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/11/2007
2007 Costa Book Award (shortlist)What I Was | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Costa_Book_Awards
2009 Der Luchs des JahresDamals, das Meer (What I Was) | http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2009-11/luchs-des-jahres
2008 Carnegie Medal (shortlist)What I Was | http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2008awards/carnegie_shortlist.php
2009 New Angle Prize (shortlist)What I Was | http://www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk/NAP%20Past%20Winners.html
2011 Carnegie Medal (shortlist)The Bride's Farewell | http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_2011_short_carn.html
2010 Alex Award (US)The Bride's Farewell | http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/alexawards/alex10
2013 U.S. National Book Award (shortlist)Picture Me Gone | http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013.html#.VypLDBUrIUE
2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial AwardLaureate | https://astridlindgrenmemorialaward.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/meg-rosoff-to-sweden/
Meg's Books
7Novels
3Picture Books
1Film
21Awards
1Husband
1Daughter
2Dogs
237Unfnished Projects
