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Person
Authorized form of name
Sissay, Lemn, 1967-, author and broadcaster
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Description area
Dates of existence
1967-
History
Dr Lemn Sissay MBE is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night. He has been a writer from birth and foremost a poet.