Joseph Coelho

School Author

Joseph Coelho is a best-selling, multi-award winning children’s playwright and author of over 45 books. His YA verse novel The Boy Lost in The Maze was the winner of the 2024 Carnegie Medal for writing and has received international acclaim appearing on the White Raven Book list - Munich, The IBBY UK Honour Books List and awarded The Extraordinary Book of 2023 by The International Children's Literature Festival of Berlin. Joseph was the Waterstone's Children’s Laureate 2022 - 2024.

Discover the inspirations behind The Boy Lost In The Maze a verse novel that intertwines the stories of two boys: Theo - a modern day Londoner and Theseus an ancient Greek Hero. Both are searching for their biological fathers, both are navigating what it means to be a man in worlds where their manhood is tested by villains, monsters and murderers, but is being a man all about brawn? is there a way to transcend toxic masculinity and to find a new way of being.