Yaa Gyasi
Ghanaian-American novelist
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| 2021 | Authored the short story 'Bad Blood' for The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. |
| March 2021 | Wrote an article in The Guardian about the resurgent popularity of Homegoing during the Black Lives Matter protests. |
| February 2020 | Published her second novel Transcendent Kingdom through Knopf. |
| 2017 | Selected for Forbes '30 under 30 List'. |
| 2017 | Gyasi receives the American Book Award. |
| 2016 | Gyasi is honored by the National Book Foundation's '5 under 35' program, recognizing emerging literary talent. |
| 2016 | Gyasi publishes her debut novel 'Homegoing', winning multiple prestigious awards including the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. |
| August 16 2016 | Appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah for an interview. |
| June 8 2016 | Published an opinion piece 'I'm Ghanaian-American. Am I Black?' in The New York Times Sunday Review. |
| 2015 | Completed her debut novel Homegoing and accepted a seven-figure advance from Knopf. |
| 2015 | Published a short story 'Inscape' in Guernica magazine, which later inspired characters in her second novel. |
| 2012 | Resigned from her tech startup job in San Francisco after being accepted to the University of Iowa, switching to writing full-time. |
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