Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi o o tshotsweng ka ngwaga wa 1989, ke mokwadi wa dibuka wa lotso lwa Ghanaian-American. Buka ya gagwe ya ntlha e e bidiwang Homegoing, e e gatisitsweng ka ngwaga wa 2016, e mo fenyeditse dieetsele di tshwana le sa John Leonard Award sa buka ya ntlha e e gaisitseng, PEN/Hemingway Award sa buka ya ntlha ya ditiragalo tse di itlhametsweng, 5 under 35 ya National Book Foundation le American Book Award, fa a le dingwaga di le masome mabedi le borataro. O ne a fiwa seetsele sa Vilcek Prize sa Creative Promise in Literature ka ngwaga wa 2020.[1]
Yaa Gyasi | |
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Tsalo | 1989 (age 34–35) Mampong, Ghana |
Thuto | Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts|BA) University of Iowa (Master of Fine Arts|MFA) |
Notable work | Homegoing (2016 novel)|Homegoing (2016), Transcendent Kingdom (2020) |
O fetheletse | Tempolete:Bullet list |
Botshelo jwa a le monnye le thuto
fetolaGyasi o tsholetswe kwa Mampong kwa Ghana,[2] ke morwadia Kwaku Gyasi o e leng morutuntshi wa puo ya French kwa University of Alabama kwa Huntsville, le Sophia o e leng mooki.[3][4] Lolwapa lwa gagwe lo fudugetse kwa United States ka ngwaga wa 1991 fa rragwe a ne a fetsa dithuto tsa gagwe tsa Ph.D kwa Ohio State University.[2][5] Lolwapa lo nnile kwa Illinois le kwa Tennessee, mme go tswa fa a le dingwaga di le lesome, Gyasi o godiseditswe kwa Huntsville kwa Alabama.[2][6]
Gyasi o ikgakologelwa a le ngwana o o boi, a le gaufi thata le bokgaitsadie ka ba ne ba na le maitemogelo a a tshwanang a go nna bana ba batswakwa kwa Alabama, dibuka e ne ya nna tsone tsala ya gagwe.[5] O ne a rotloediwa ke go amogela setlankana sa katlego se beilwe monwana ke LeVar Burton, sa polelo ya ntlha a e kwala, e a neng a e romeletse kwa phadisanong ya Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators. Fa a le dingwaga di le lesome le bosupa a tsena sekolo kwa Grissom High School, Gyasi o ne a nna le tlhotlheletso ya go kwala e le tiro ya gagwe fa a sena go bala buka ya ga Toni Morrison ya Song of Solomon.[5]
O alogile ka Bachelor of Arts in English kwa Standford University, le Master of Fine Arts kwa Iowa Writers Workshop,e e leng lenaneo la bokwadi jwa maitlhamelo kwa University of Iowa.[6][7]
Tiro
fetolaMorago ga go aloga kwa Stanford, o ne a simolola buka ya gagwe ya ntlha, gape a bereka kwa komponeng e potlana kwa San Francisco, mme o ne a sa itumelele tiro eo ka jalo a tlogela tiro morago ga go amogelwa kwa Iowa ka ngwaga wa 2012.[7]
Buka ya gagwe ya ntlha ya Homegoing, e rotloeditswe ke loeto lo a neng a lo tsere go ya Ghana ka ngwaga wa 2009, e le lantlha a ya teng fa e sale a le losea. Buka e ne ya fediwa ka ngwaga wa 2015, mme morago ga go balwa ke bagatisi, o ne a bona diphetolo di le dintsi pele ga a amogela ya ba Knopf[7] ba ba neng ba mmeile madi a dimilione fa pele. Ta-Nehisi Coates o tlhophile Homegoing go phadisanela seetsele sa 5 under 35 sa National Book Foundation ka ngwaga wa 2016,[6] buka e ne ya tlhophiwa gape ke ba seetsele sa ga John Leonard sa National Book Critics Circle, PEN/Hemingway award sa buka ya ntlha le American Book Award ka seabe sa gagwe mo pharologanyong ya padi ya America.[8][9][10][11]
Mekwalo ya gagwe e tlhageletse gape mo dikgatisong di tshwana le African American Review,[12] Callaloo,[13] Guernica[14] the Guardian [15]le Granta.[16]
Gyasi o tlhophileng ba ba latelang, e le bone barotloesti ba gagwe: Toni Morrison ka buka ya gagwe ya Song of Solomon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez ka One Hundred Years of Solitude, James Baldwin ka Go Tell it on the Mountain, Edward P. Jones ka Lost in the City le Jhumpa Lahiri ka Unaccustomed Earth.[5][7][17]
Ka ngwaga wa 2016, Gyasi o ne a nna kwa Berkeley kwa California.[7][10]
Ka ngwaga wa 2017, Gyasi o ne a tlhophiwa ke ba Forbes go nna mongwe wa ba ba masome a mararo ba ba dingwaga tse di kwa tlase ga masome mararo.[18]
Ka Tlhakole ngwaga wa 2020, Gyasi o gatisitse buka ya gagwe ya bobedi e e bidiwang Transcendent Kingdom,[19]e ntse e le mo tlhokomelong ya ga Knopf.[20] Jaaka e e tsileng pele ga yone ya Homegoing, buka e e galaleditswe ke bakanoki ba dibuka ka go farologana. Sara Collins wa The Guardian o e supile e le buka e tshwanetseng go sala morago Homegoing.[21] USA Today bane ba re ditiragalo tsa yone di utlusa botlhoko.[22]The Vox, Chicago Review of Books, The New Republic le tse dingwe, ba akgotse buka e.[23] Baanelwa ba polelo-khutswe e Gyasi a e kwadileng mo makasineng wa Guernica ya Inscape[24] ba tlhagelela gape mo bukeng e mme ele ditiragalo tse di pharologanyo.
Ka Mopitlo ngwaga wa 2021, o ne a kwala tlhamo ka setlhogo sa "this question of 'the business of reading', of how we read, why we read, and what reading does for and to us". O kwadile gore "le fa ke dumela thata mo goreng padi e a gwetlha, e a nonotsha e bile e a fetola, ke itse gape gore go reka dibuka tse di kwadilweng ke batho bantsho ke go tsibogela dingwaga tsa kgobalo mo maikutlong le mo nameng".[25]
Dibuka tse a di kwadileng
fetola- Homegoing, ya ngwaga wa 2016
- Transcendent Kingdom, ya ngwaga wa 2020
- "Bad Blood" mo The 1619 Project: A new origin story (2021)
Dietsele
fetola- 2016 National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book[26]
- 2016: National Book Foundation's 5 under 35[27]
- 2017: American Book Award[28]
- 2017: Granta best of Young American Novelists[29][30]
- 2017: PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction[31]
- 2020: [./Vilcek_Prizehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilcek_Foundation#Vilcek_Prizes Vilcek Prize] for Creative Promise in Literature[1]
- 2021: Women's Prize for fiction, ka Transcendent Kingdom[32]
Metswedi
fetola- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yaa Gyasi". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Maloney, Jennifer (May 26, 2016). "Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, Born in Ghana and Raised in the U.S." Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Anderson-Maples, Joyce (December 2, 2016). "UAH welcomes Yaa Gyasi, author of The New York Times best-selling book Homegoing". The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ Haskin, Shelly (August 28, 2016). "How an Alabama author's debut novel landed her on 'The Daily Show'". AL.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Begley, Sarah (June 5, 2016). "A 26-Year-old Looks to the Past for Her Literary Debut". TIME.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing, 5 Under 35, 2016, National Book Foundation". www.nationalbook.org. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Wolfe, Eli (June 28, 2016). "How Yaa Gyasi found her story in slavers' outpost". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Debut novelist among winners of American Book Awards". The Washington Times. Associated Press. August 4, 2017. ISSN 0190-8286.
- ↑ Alter, Alexandra (January 17, 2017), "Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon Among National Book Critics Circle Finalists", The New York Times.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction". PEN New England. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
- ↑ "100 Notable Books of 2016". The New York Times. November 21, 2016. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ AAR African American Review.
- ↑ "Yaa Gyasi", National Book Festival, Library of Congress.
- ↑ Yaa Gyasi, "Inscape", Guernica, June 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Yaa Gyasi: ‘I write a sentence. I delete it. I wonder if it’s too early for lunch’", The Guardian, October 28, 2017.
- ↑ Gyasi, Yaa, "Leaving Gotham City", Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3, April 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Five books: The books that influenced Yaa Gyasi". Penguin. 2016. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ↑ "30 Under 30 2017: Media". Forbes. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
- ↑ "Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ "Transcendent Kingdom". thankyoubookshop.com. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ Collins, Sara (February 24, 2021). "Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi review – a profound follow-up to Homegoing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ VanDenburgh, Barbara. "Review: Yaa Gyasi's 'Transcendent Kingdom' a profound story of faith, addiction and loss". USA TODAY. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ Gyasi, Yaa (June 15, 2015). "Inscape". Guernica (The Boundaries of Taste). Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ↑ Gyasi, Yaa (June 15, 2015). "Inscape". Guernica. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ↑ Gyasi, Yaa (March 20, 2021). "White people, black authors are not your medicine". the Guardian. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ↑ Admin (March 16, 2017). "National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces 2016 Award Winners - Critical Mass Blog". bookcritics.org. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
- ↑ "5 Under 35 2016". National Book Foundation. Retrieved May 15, 2022.
- ↑ "2017 American Book Awards announced". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
- ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn, and Michael Schaub (April 26, 2017), "Granta names 21 of the best young American novelists" Archived September 24, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "Granta’s list of the best young American novelists", The Guardian, April 26, 2017.
- ↑ Catan, Wayne (May 31, 2017). "Interview with Yaa Gyasi, 2017 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner". www.hemingwaysociety.org. The Hemingway Society. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (April 29, 2021). "Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees". the Guardian. Retrieved April 29, 2021.