My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022 - Couverture souple

Sissay, Lemn

 
9781838854645: My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022
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ISBN 10 : 1838854649 ISBN 13 : 9781838854645
Editeur : Canongate Books, 2022

Synopsis

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How does a government steal a child and then imprison him?
How does it keep it a secret?
This story is how.
This story is true.

My Name Is Why is a true story about growing up in care and fighting to succeed despite the cruelty and failures of the care system.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

@lemnsissay | lemnsissay.com

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Éditeur
Canongate Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1838854649
ISBN 13 
9781838854645
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1786892367 ISBN 13 :  9781786892362
Editeur : Canongate Books, 2020
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