Gyasi, Yaa
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Name (Hebrew)
ג'סי, יא, 1989-
Name (Latin)
Gyasi, Yaa
Other forms of name
Gyasi, Yaa, 1989-
Date of birth
1989
Place of birth
Ghana
Associated country
United States
Place of residence/headquarters
Huntsville (Ala.)
Field of activity
Fiction
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Transcendent kingdom, 2020:CIP title page (Yaa Gyasi) LAC CIP application (American) back cover jacket flap (Homecoming, won her the national Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn)
- Homegoing, 2016:ECIP t.p. (by Yaa Gyasi) data view (born in Ghana but grew up in Huntsville, Ala.)
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Wikipedia description:
Yaa Gyasi (surname pronounced Jessie) (born 1989) 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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