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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

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Taiye Selasi: My Writing Playlist

Taiye Selasi

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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Fiction | The Online Edition

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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Fiction | The Online Edition

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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Fiction | The Online Edition

The Sex Lives of African Girls

Taiye Selasi

Begin, inevitably, with Uncle. There you are, eleven, alone in the study in the dark...