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 & 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 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.
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
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
Fiction | Issue 115
The Sex Lives of African Girls
Taiye Selasi
‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’