Julia Golding

Julia Golding read English at Cambridge then joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland.  On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford.  She then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones. Julia was the gold winner of the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 9-11 age category 2006, winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2006, and shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Julia Golding was nominated as one of Waterstone’s Top 25 Author of the Future 2007. Julia is married with three children, and now lives in Oxford.

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