Nathanael Lessore
Author
Nathanael Lessore is a Sunday Times Bestselling author!
Nathanael can run 100 metres in under 10 minutes and has trouble finding sunglasses that frame his face properly.
Since its publication, Nathanael’s Steady For This has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award, the Jhalak Prize, the Branford Boase, and many regional awards. His follow up, King of Nothing, won the Waterstones Prize 2025. He’s also been published in the United States of America, or the USA of A, and has been practicing dance moves for no real reason.
Writing his first book gave him the opportunity to show his South East London childhood as the funny, warm, adventurous world that wasn’t always represented as such. Celebrating diverse characters gave Nathanael the opportunity to represent kids who otherwise would never see themselves in this light in this form of literature.
If he wasn’t a writer, Nathanael would be a half-hearted heart surgeon to mosquitoes, or head of some committee that meets on weekends.
He grew up in a North Peckham estate as one of eight children to French and Madagascan parents. Becoming a writer is a dream come true, and he will never take this journey for granted.
