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

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

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 ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Taiye Selasi | Podcast

Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey

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

FictionFiction | 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 & MemoirEssays & 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 ConversationIn 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.’

FictionFiction | Issue 115

Fiction | Issue 115

The Sex Lives of African Girls

Taiye Selasi

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