Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin. Read full biography of Taiye Selasi →
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark... →
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or... →
Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin.