Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi was born in London to Nigerian and Ghanian parents. she holds a BA from Yale and an MPhil from Oxford. Selasi made her fiction debut in Granta in 2011 with ‘The Sex Live of African Girls’, which was selected for Best American Short Stories in 2012. Her first novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in March 2013. An avid traveller and photographer, Selasi lives in Rome.
Taiye Selasi on Granta.com
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Taiye Selasi: My Writing Playlist
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Photo of Orchestra Baobab. 1. In a Sentimental Mood by John Coltrane Perhaps it’s because...
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Taiye Selasi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 60
Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey
Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring...
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Driver
Taiye Selasi
‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Books I Read This Year
Various Contributors
From Robert Macfarlane’s journey through Britain’s old and forgotten footpaths, to Teju Cole’s illuminations of...
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Granta Celebrates Its 2012 Best American Series Authors
Various Contributors
Granta Celebrates Its 2012 Best American Series Authors 29 October, 7 p.m., Word Bookstore ,...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Taiye Selasi
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi made her fiction debut in The F Word, with ‘The Sex Lives of...
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The Sex Lives of African Girls
Taiye Selasi
Begin, inevitably, with Uncle. There you are, eleven, alone in the study in the dark...