Lemn Sissay

Google ‘Lemn Sissay’ and all the return hits will be about him. There is only one person in the world named Lemn Sissay. Awarded the 2024 Hay Medal for Poetry, Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL is also a playwright, memoirist, performer and broadcaster. His latest book Let The Light Pour In is a Sunday Times bestseller. The paperback comes out in 2025. His autobiography My Name is Why was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller. In 2021, he helped select the work for Hold Still, which also became a Sunday Times bestseller. His theatre adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy is a text on the national curriculum in the UK.