Georgina Godwin is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is a broadcast journalist, and presents the in -depth author interview programme “Meet the Writers”, and the award winning current affairs show “The Globalist” on Monocle Radio . She’s also Books editor for the international station. She chairs literary events worldwide, and has been a judge for several writing prizes, including the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, The Caine Prize for African Writing, The British Book Awards and currently the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards . She was a founder member of Zimbabwe’s first independent radio station, before being declared an “Enemy of the State” and exiled from her home to London. She is on the board of the charity English PEN.