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Lea Ypi holds the Ralph Miliband Chair in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Her first trade book, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History won the Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Award. Indignity: A Life Reimagined was longlisted for the Women's Prize and shortlisted for Blackwell's Book of the Year. Her work is translated into over thirty languages.

Books by Lea Ypi

Free

An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice

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Indignity

The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family

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