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Author uses Immanuel College for Inspiration

Wednesday, 2nd March 2011

Keren David, author of the award-winning book, When I Was Joe, came to speak to students at Immanuel College today about her writing and her career in journalism. This event at the school celebrated this week’s World Book Day and was also arranged to promote the Immanuel College Annual Book Award shortlist which included When I Was Joe.

Mrs David, who started her career as a messenger girl for a national newspaper and then moved on to be a reporter, a news editor, a comment editor and feature writer and worked at The Independent for many years excited Year 7-9 pupils by telling them Immanuel College is among the sources of inspiration of When I was Joe. She made use of the experiences of her daughter, who went to the school for a short time when the family moved back to the UK from Holland. The stresses of moving to different schools, making new friends and moving house and country served as material for When I was Joe.

She went on to tell them that her background as a journalist encouraged her to turn to newspapers for further inspiration and to help her with details about knife crime, which at the time of writing the book in 2008, was being regularly reported in the newspapers.

The Immanuel College Annual Book Award is judged each year by a panel of students, parents and teachers, who read through nominations of books from across the school community and prepare a shortlist of their favourite titles. When I was Joe was nominated by Yaron Bernstein (Year 9), Joshua Cainer (Year 11) and Ms Nicola Solomon (parent).