My Name Is Why

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.

About the author

Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, and in 2019 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. In 2023, Sissay was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is British and Ethiopian.

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Product details

• Authors: Lemn Sissay, Sissay Lemn
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786892362
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-236-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiography: general, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Diaries, letters and journals, Social discrimination and equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Ethiopia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Social discrimination and social justice