Grandpa NICE, his true life, his true life is bumpy!

Say Michael Rosen, you must not know him.

But what if it is the following emoji?

Yes, this grandfather is Michael Rosen himself.

But Rosen is not a popular Internet celebrity with an emoticon package. He is a world -renowned children's champion writer!

Here, I will introduce this Grandpa Nice -he is a poet, a playwright, a children's literary writer, and a broadcaster and performer. He has been creating since 1968 and has published nearly a hundred works so far. Because of his contribution to British children's literature, Grandpa Rosen was awarded the title of "Fairy Tale Poet" in 2007.

However, the old grandfather who brought joy to countless children and netizens, his real life story is not as humorous and relaxed as Nice emoticons, and can even be described by twists and turns.

He was born in a fire. He was arrested and jailed when he was young. He lost his love for middle age.

But after so many ups and downs, he always laughed as long as he appeared in front of the children and appeared on the screen.

01

Born in the fire, the youth was imprisoned twice

In 1946, Michael Rosen was born. On the day he was born, a church next to his family had a fire, the fire spread all the way, and most of the things in the family were burned, but the boy was born smoothly.

When he was a child, Rosen was born in a Jewish family and his parents were communists. He was often excluded and degraded in school.

However, Rosen was not affected by these cold -mocking. Perhaps he had a pair of humorous and happy parents. He often told jokes, storytelling, and singing at home. He also read Shakespeare's poetry and drama. When he was a child, he fell in love with writing stories, poetry and performances. Optimism and humor were deeply branded in his character at that time.

After entering college, Rosen was immersed in the world of literature. The drama "BACK BONE" he created during the school was also performed on the stage of the Royal Court Theater.

Rosen in his youth was also imprisoned twice because of "maverick".

Once because of the opposition of the war, in the 1960s, the Vietnamese war entered the fierce stage, and there was Rosen in the anti -war wave. He was briefly arrested and jailed.

The other time was because of opposition to racism. The reason was that the hairdresser refused to make a haircut to the black. Rosen expressed his protest, and as a result, he was imprisoned again.

In Rosen's own growth, although he suffered discrimination and insults from time to time, he grew up for a person with a spirit of resistance and full of anger.

After graduating from college, Rosen entered the BBC work. In this decent job, Rosen did not do it. The reason is that BBC's leadership believes that he has too much personality, always has his own ideas, and is not suitable for the BBC concept, so Rosen was dismissed.

Perhaps this dismissal has opened up the real career of Rosen -as a children's literary writer.

After leaving the BBC, Rosen started his own fairy tale creation. In 1974, he published his first children's poem collection- "Do your own thing". It is humorous, and like an old friend, it will soon capture countless children.

Since then, Rosen's creation is out of control. A few years later, "We are going to catch a bear" published, successfully broke the circle, and was translated into several different languages, published in all parts of Europe.

This book full of childlike picture books tells the family's determination to catch the excitement and thrills of the bears along the way.

There are all kinds of propaganda in the story. Passing through the grass is 窸窸 窣窣, it is rush to walk through the river, and it is a whine to pass through the snowstorm.

Even if you are an adult, you will feel inexplicably better after reading this adventure story.

02

Children, humor and sadness

After starting to create a story for children, Rosen has been cultivated by the writing ability since childhood.

Coupled with Rosen's unique childlike heart, he can look at the world from the perspective of his child. This makes the stories in his pen, easily fun, innocent and humorous, capturing the hearts of countless children.

Rosen also couldn't hold back his desire to perform in his bones, and opened a channel for the children, telling stories, reading nursery rhymes and poetry here.

The classic Nice emoticon package comes from a small story "Hot Food" that Rosen reads for children.

For another example, he imitated the happiness of children when eating cakes, funny expressions, and cunning expressions. He himself was completely an older child.

Rosen also hosted a program called "Rosen's Poetry Attic" to introduce the creation of English poetry in the show.

This sounds like a serious creation class, but in the hands of Rosen, it can also "go" instantly.

When he was talking about the beauty of poetry, he used a poem called "Muddy Boots" as an example, ran to a muddy ground in the forest, and stepping on the mud in rain boots, reading the poem aloud.

When he described the mud in the poem, he read the poem while holding the mud rain boots with his face, and he could be said to have no idol baggage.

One after another published, sold, sold, and translated into multi -language, Rosen's life can be said to be famous.

However, when people reach middle age, fate and Rosen have a sad joke. One day in 1999, Rosen came to the bedside of the second son Eddie, but found that his son's body was cold and stiff. Eddie died quietly in his sleep because of meningitis. The night before, Rosen was still saying good night to Eddie, but he did not expect that it would be forever.

The huge tragedy of the bereavement drowned Rosen. For a long time, sadly defeated him, he would suddenly cry, smash the table with a spoon, or silently.

Rosen, who has always been optimistic and humorous in life, wrote this kind of unforgettable pain into another book "Sad Book "-" I have a sad way in my body. "

"Actually I am sad, but pretend to be happy, because I am afraid of revealing sadness, everyone will not like it."

Although this book is still in the form of picture books, for many adults, it has a deep resonance in the soul.

At this point, Grandpa Rosen's life can be said to be quite bumpy, but it will finally return to peace.

At the time of peace and peace, the new crown was popular, and Grandpa Rosen, who was old, unfortunately infected the virus.

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74 years old, he learned to walk again

In March 2020, 74 -year -old Michael Rosen was infected with a new crown. He stayed in the intensive care unit for 48 days and was in danger of 3 times. For a long time, he was in a coma.

Fortunately, he woke up. After waking up, he found that his arms and legs stopped working. He couldn't stand up and couldn't walk.

As a result, doctors and caregivers in the hospital began to teach him how to walk again.

And Rosen's feelings about this experience are: "I think this is amazing, my best friend has become my crutch. I learned how to use this stick correctly, and it helped me walk again. No longer need it. "

He imitated his panting voice at the time, and his face had no complaints about fate.

The problem on the road of rehabilitation is heavy, Rosen's left eye can't see, the left ear can't hear, and there are various micro -bleeding ...

But Rosen, who has experienced countless winds and waves, still shows the optimistic attitude of "NICE" this time. He wrote a book "Various Love" from the experience of diagnosis and treatment to rehabilitation training.

Rosen laughed at his state of illness, and self -deprecation was "half -man and semi -thrombus":

I heard for the first time

When there is a band called "Half -Man Half Piscipher",

I almost cried for this joyful creativity.

I have been trying to come up with a "half -person"

To describe yourself.

Now I have:

Half -semi -thrombosis.

He also humorously recorded his "suspicion":

I remember I went to see a doctor and consult my legs.

Me: I have spots on my legs.

Doctor: What do you think?

Me: Skin cancer?

Doctor: worse than this.

Me: Really?

Doctor: It's an old spot.

Outsiders seem to have a variety of treatments, and in Rosen's description, they can also become more joy:

In the ophthalmology clinic,

Surgeon told me,

He inserted into the tube in my eyes

good results.

He said, now there is a place in the liquid

went.

There is a drainage pipe in my eyes.

During the intensive care, Rosen's bed was a laptop at the end of Rosen, leaving the nurses and volunteers who took care of him to leave the words full of care, encouragement and hope on it. The love of his wife, the guardian of the nurse and the volunteers, and the tenacious will of Rosen's own tenacious will, took him out of the "deadly ginseng" and embarked on a long way to rehabilitation.

There are 8 chapters in the book "Various Love", which includes the prose poem of the grandfather, the briefing written by his wife Emma, ​​and the note of the medical staff. Recently, this book has just been published in China.

And the title of the book, from one of them, Rosen dreamed of a farmer, and the farmer said to him:

His declaration said, we only have

In love with each other to continue.

He said, we have to find all kinds of love:

Love for lover, love for our children,

Love to our colleagues, even

The love of people we don't know.

If so, we will destroy ourselves.

Perhaps this is the self -pursuit of Rosen's life. He used a variety of love to heal the pain he experienced; he used all kinds of love to create countless innocent stories for the children; he also used a variety of love to reveal Everyone must live with humor and optimism.

In an interview, the host asked Grandpa Rosen, if you describe life in one sentence, which sentence would you use?

Rosen replied: There is always the corner of life.

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