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Yaa Gyasi

1989 - Today

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Yaa Gyasi (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Yaa Gyasi is the 6,954th most popular writer (up from 7,266th in 2024). (up from 5,277th in 2019)

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Among writers, Yaa Gyasi ranks 6,954 out of 7,302. Before her are Al Jean, Qiu Miaojin, Rupi Kaur, Adania Shibli, Seth Meyers, and Junot Díaz. After her are Adam Curry, Charles Frazier, Faye Kellerman, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Mona Eltahawy, and Emily St. John Mandel.

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Among people born in 1989, Yaa Gyasi ranks 324. Before her are Slobodan Rajković, Franco Vázquez, Chen Long, Ricky van Wolfswinkel, James Holland, and Alex D. Linz. After her are Yoon Doo-joon, Josip Pivarić, Tomáš Pekhart, Ryan Bertrand, Simu Liu, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

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