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# Meet Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi, the only African-born author to make the 2021 Women’s Prize Longlist
- URL: https://braperucci.africa/meet-ghanaian-author-yaa-gyasi-the-only-african-born-author-to-make-the-2021-womens-prize-longlist
- Published: 2021-04-03T13:09:37.000Z
- Author: Bra Perucci
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- Section: Art
- Description: The ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ author who is also Ghanaian has made history as the sole African to be names on the Women’s Prize 2021 longlist.

![Meet Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi, the only African-born author to make the 2021 Women’s Prize Longlist](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/Yaa-Gyasi_Landscape_Photo-by-Annette-Hornischer-Courtesy-of-American-Academy-in-Berlin.jpg?v=kn1r2qew)

## Novelist, Yaa Gyasi of Ghanaian-American heritage has made history as the sole African on Women’s Prize 2021 longlist.

![yaagyasi](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/yaagyasi.jpg?v=kn1qypco)

Her second published novel _‘Transcendent Kingdom’_ which has received raving reviews was announced by the Women’s Prize as part of a longlist of groundbreaking Literature

The annual list saw sixteen female writers from across the world nominated for the grand prize including Yaa who hails from Ghana. The Wome’s Prize will shortlist six authors who will be announced on the 28th of April and subsequently announce the winner in July.

_Transcendent Kingdom_ was released by her publisher in 2020 following her award-winning 2016 debut _Homegoing_ which sold for over a million US dollars.

_Transcendent Kingdom’s_ follows a Ghanaian family in Alabama torn apart by the heartbreaking effects of drug addiction.

Read more: [The Burial of Kojo and Azali are the first Ghanaian movies to be selected for the Golden Globes and Oscars](https://braperucci.africa/the-burial-of-kojo-and-azali-are-the-first-ghanaian-movies-to-be-selected-for-the-golden-globes-and-oscars)

According to[ Okayafrica](https://www.okayafrica.com/), this is the Ghanaian author’s first Women’s Prize nomination which also makes her the only African-born author to make the 2021 longlist.

Yaa was born in Mampong to Kwaku Gyasi, a professor of French at the [University of Alabama in Huntsville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville), and Sophia, who is a nurse.

![Meet Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi, the only African-born author to make the 2021 Women’s Prize Longlist](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/Yaa-Gyasi_Landscape_Photo-by-Annette-Hornischer-Courtesy-of-American-Academy-in-Berlin.jpg?v=kn1r2qew)

She graduated from the University of Standford and her debut novel [_Homegoing_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegoing_%28Gyasi_novel%29) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf)

Other notable nominations include, **Amanda Craig**, a British novelist who was born in South Africa and grew up in Italy before moving to London. Craig is longlisted for _The Golden Rule._

The 2020 Booker Prize shortlist nominee **Avni Doshi** makes the list for _Burnt Sugar_ and Barbadian **Cherie Jones** with her novel _How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House_.

Congratulations Yaa Gyasi, praying and hoping your bring the big prize home.

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Check out the full list of authors nominated in the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.

_Because of You_ by **Dawn French**\
_Burnt Sugar_ by **Avni Doshi**\
_Consent_ by **Annabel Lyon**\
_Detransition, Baby_ by **Torrey Peters**\
_Exciting Times_ by **Naoise Dolan**\
_How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House_ by **Cherie Jones**\
_Luster_ by **Raven Leilani**\
_No One is Talking About This_ by **Patricia Lockwood**\
_Nothing But Blue Sky_ by **Kathleen MacMahon**\
_Piranesi_ by **Susanna Clarke**\
_Small Pleasures_ by **Clare Chambers**\
_Summer_ by **Ali Smith**\
_The Golden Rule_ by **Amanda Craig**\
_The Vanishing Half_ by **Brit Bennett**\
_Transcendent Kingdom_ by **Yaa Gyasi**\
_Unsettled Ground_ by Claire **Fuller**