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Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi was born in London. She holds a BA from Yale and an MPhil from Oxford. Her short fiction was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012 and she was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013. Her debut novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in 2013.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

Betwixt and Betwin

Taiye Selasi

‘There has to be sameness if you are twins. If there isn’t it has to be invented.’

Taiye Selasi on trying to escape from twinhood.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

Taiye Selasi | My Writing Playlist

Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, shares a playlist of songs to write to.

In Conversation | Issue 161

In Conversation | Issue 161

Taiye Selasi | Podcast

Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey

Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.

Fiction | Issue 123

Fiction | Issue 123

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 & Memoir | Issue 123

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Books I Read This Year

Various Contributors

A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.

In Conversation | Issue 123

In Conversation | Issue 123

Taiye Selasi | Interview

Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi

‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’

Fiction | Issue 115

Fiction | Issue 115

The Sex Lives of African Girls

Taiye Selasi

‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’