Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 04 May
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In her 2004 debut, How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff wrote about the impacts of war on children; about trauma and childhood sexuality, about resilience and suffering. Her extraordinary narrator, 15-year-old Daisy, was a memorable and celebrated creation and How I Live Now went on to win several awards. It is also currently being adapted for the screen. As the Observer put it, Rosoff had created an instant classic, and brought Young Adult literature legions of new fans.
Since then, her follow-up books – including Just in Case and What I Was – have been similarly acclaimed, exploring unflinchingly the nature of longing and growing up, the ‘impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.’ In Melbourne for one event only, the celebrated and award-winning author for young adults talks to Mike Shuttleworth.
Featuring
Mike Shuttleworth
Mike Shuttleworth is a youth literature activist, organising events and writing about youth literature since 2002.
Mike was the program manager at the Centre for Youth Literature for eight years. He also curated the exhibition Look! The art of Australian picture books today, an exhibition for children that included 47 Australian illustrators. He has been a judge on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2010 and 2011. Reviews and profiles have appeared in the Age, the Sunday Age, Australian Book Review, Viewpoint and Magpies.
Mike has also appeared on Radio National’s The Book Show and local ABC. He is a member of the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools Programming Committee and in 2011 he travelled to France to attend the Angouleme International Comics Festival to examine programming and presentation of comics and graphic novels.
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff is a celebrated and award-winning author for young adults.
In her 2004 debut, How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff wrote about the impacts of war on children; about trauma and childhood sexuality, about resilience and suffering. Her extraordinary narrator, 15-year-old Daisy, was a memorable and celebrated creation and How I Live Now went on to win several awards. It is also currently being adapted for the screen. As the Observer put it, Rosoff had created an instant classic, and brought Young Adult literature legions of new fans.
Since then, her follow-up books – including Just in Case and What I Was – have been similarly acclaimed, exploring unflinchingly the nature of longing and growing up, the ‘impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.’