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Yaa Gyasi
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1989
Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. At the age of 26, Gyasi won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honors for 2016 and the 2017 American Book Award. She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020. As of 2019, Gyasi lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Birth
1989
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First book
2016
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Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama.
She is an acclaimed American novelist, best known for her successful work Homegoing.
She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Her literary talent has been recognized by the New York Times, achieving bestseller status.
She currently lives in New York City, where she continues to develop her writing career.