Georgina Godwin

Georgina Godwin is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is a broadcast journalist, and presents the author interview programme Meet the Writers, and the current affairs show The Globalist on Monocle Radio. She’s also Books Editor for the station, and chairs literary events worldwide. She was a founder member of Zimbabwe’s first independent radio station, before being declared an ‘Enemy of the State’ and exiled to London. She is on the board of the charity English PEN. She has judged the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, The British Book Awards and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.