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Taiye Selasi      

Author, "Ghana Must Go"

Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford. "The Sex Lives of African Girls" (Granta, 2011), Selasi’s fiction debut, appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012. In 2013 Granta named her to its once-every-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. Selasi's first novel "Ghana Must Go" (Penguin, 2013), a New York Times bestseller, has been sold in 16 countries. She lives in Rome.

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Why Taiye Selasi is 'not a normal literary lady' - The Globe and Mail
Her debut novel mirrors the complex mix of influences that make her an Afropolitan.
Taiye Selasi on Ghana Must Go - The Scotsman
TAIYE Selasi is telling me where she wrote Ghana Must Go, probably the most feted debut novel of the year. “It started in the shower at a yoga retreat in Sweden  ...

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