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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.
The role promotes the importance of children’s literature, reading, creativity and storytelling while promoting the right of every child to enjoy a lifetime of books and stories. Each Laureate uses their tenure to focus on an aspect of children’s books – these have included poetry, storytelling, readers with disabilities and illustration.
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 ...
A. Peter Ackroyd; Henry Cadwallader Adams; Richard Adams; Jean Adamson; Gladys Lucy Adshead; Joan Aiken; Lucy Aikin; Jez Alborough; Vivien Alcock; Mabel Esther Allan
The performance poet, playwright and children’s author is the 12th Waterstones Children’s Laureate and he will hold the post until 2024.
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Mann started her career as an actress before turning her hand to writing. Mann's first novel, Run Rebel, was released in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received the Shadowers’ Choice Award for Carnegie Medal [4] and the UKLA Book Award for Ages 11–14+; [5] it was shortlisted for and won several other awards.