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Yaa Gyasi

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: Berkeley, California, US.
  • Country: Ghana
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Biography

Born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

2016: National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book. 2016: National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35”. 2017: American Book Award. 2017: Granta Best of Young American Novelists. 2017: PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction. 2020: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, Vilcek Foundation. 2021: Women’s Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for Transcendent Kingdom.

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