Yaa Gyasi Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel , Homegoing , published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction , the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the American Book Award . She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020.Early life and education Born in Mampong, Ghana , she is the daughter of Kwaku Gyasi , a professor of French at the University of Alabama in Huntsville , and Sophia, who is a nurse. Her family moved to the United States in 1991 when her father was completing his Ph.D. at Ohio State University . The family also lived in Illinois and Tennessee , and from the age of 10, Gyasi was raised in Huntsville, Alabama . Gyasi recalls being shy as a child, feeling close to her brothers for their shared experiences as young immigrant children in Alabama, and turning to books as her "closest friends". She received a certificate of achievement signed by LeVar Burton after submitting the first story she wrote to the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest , which encouraged her, and after reading Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon while attending Grissom High School at the age of 17, she was inspired to choose a career in writing. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Stanford University , and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop , a creative writing program at the University of Iowa .Career Shortly after graduating from Stanford, she began her debut novel and worked at a startup company in San Francisco, but she did not enjoy the work and resigned after she was accepted to Iowa in 2012. Her debut novel Homegoing was inspired by a 2009 trip to Ghana, Gyasi's first since leaving the country as an infant. The novel was completed in 2015, and after initial readings from publishers, was met with numerous offers before she accepted a seven-figure advance from Knopf . Ta-Nehisi Coates selected Homegoing for the National Book Foundation's 2016 "5 under 35" award, and the novel also was selected for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award, the PEN/Hemingway award for best first book, and the American Book Award for contributions to diversity in American literature . Her writing has also appeared in such publications as African American Review , Callaloo , Guernica The Guardian , and Granta . Gyasi cites Toni Morrison , Gabriel García Márquez , James Baldwin , Edward P. Jones, and Jhumpa Lahiri as inspirations. , Gyasi lived in Berkeley, California .Works Homegoing Transcendent Kingdom Awards National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction 2016: National Book Foundation's "5 under 35 American Book Award 2017: Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2020: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, Vilcek Foundation
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