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Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi is a novelist. Her debut novel Homegoing saw her named by Ta-Nehisi Coates as one of five novelists under 35 to watch at the 2016 National Book Awards.

March 2021

  • Protesters march across the Brooklyn Bridge during a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter protest in New York City, 19 June 2020.

    White people, black authors are not your medicine

  • Yaa Gyasi

    Books that made me
    Yaa Gyasi: 'Toni Morrison blew away everything I thought I knew about literature'

October 2017

  • YaaDigital1 My Writers Day

    My writing day
    Yaa Gyasi: ‘I write a sentence. I delete it. I wonder if it’s too early for lunch’

    The Ghanaian-American novelist tries to recreate the feeling of working on her award-winning debut in ‘the dungeon’, a dank nook in her first apartment

January 2017

  • Yaa Gyasi

    Why the next four years will be a test for all of us

    Yaa Gyasi
    It is not enough to protest Trump’s presidency. We must all challenge injustice, at home and in the wider world
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