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Joseph Aaron Coelho OBE FRSL is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022 to 2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . [ 1 ] In 2024, he was announced the winner of the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The Boy Lost in the Maze.
Coelho, whose tenure as Children’s Laureate runs from 2022-2024, said: “Poetry is powerful, it is the medium we turn to at weddings, funerals and new births because it goes beyond mere words ...
The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time. As of June 2017, the series has been translated into 85 languages, [ 16 ] placing Harry Potter among history's most translated literary works .
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
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Very Short Introductions is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. List of books in the series ... Joseph Dan: 30 August 2007: Non-VSI, 2006 ...
The performance poet, playwright and children’s author is the 12th Waterstones Children’s Laureate and he will hold the post until 2024.