Founder and Director
European Literature Network
Rosie Goldsmith was a BBC staff Senior Broadcast Journalist for twenty years. She travelled the world and presented several flagship BBC programmes. A passionate linguist, she has lived in Europe, Africa and the USA. Known also as a champion of international literature, translation and language learning, she promotes them whenever she can. Today she combines journalism with chairing and curating arts and literary events in the UK and across the world. Rosie collaborates with many major organisations, such as the British Academy, British Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Future Library Norway and ELIT-European Literature Days Austria. She is Founder and Director of the European Literature Network, Editor-in-Chief of The Riveter magazine of European literature in translation, Artistic Director of the European Writers’ Festival and was Chair of the Judges of the EBRD International Literature Prize 2018-2020, a prize that she helped set up. Rosie is a regular interviewer at literature festivals across the UK and presenter of the Slightly Foxed podcast.