For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Taiye Selasi.
Photograph © Nadav Kander
Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.
For more about the author, including critical perspectives and in-depth biographies, visit the British Council’s web pages on Taiye Selasi.
Photograph © Nadav Kander
‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
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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‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
‘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.
Taiye Selasi, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, shares a playlist of songs to write to.
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
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