Yusof Hassan

Represented by Gemma Cooper

Yusof is a British-Egyptian university student, black-belt in Karate, and someone who can’t technically cook but still experiments new ways to nearly get food poisoning. He got into middle-grade for the great book covers (because that’s how he judges books), but stayed for the amazing playground of imagination that it offers.

Making absolutely no use of his very-maths-heavy Economics undergraduate degree, Yusof has developed a love for dreaming of cool scenes and then banging his head against the table trying to make a story work around them. Yusof’s younger brothers are his main audience when he writes middle-grade, and they’re also his excuse for still watching so many cartoons. He loves using stories to proudly teach others about his culture, whilst also learning about cultures different to his own through exploring different perspectives.