Taiye Selasi
Taiye Selasi (born November 2, 1979 in London ) is a British writer and photographer with Nigerian and Ghanaian roots.
Life
The daughter of a Nigerian-Scottish mother and a Ghanaian father, both doctors and civil rights activists, was born in London and grew up in Brookline , Massachusetts . She studied at Yale and Oxford . She lives in New York and Rome .
In her essay Bye-Bye, Babar from 2005, Selasi coined the term “Afropolitan”, world Africans, not just global citizens, but also those with African roots who, for example, are B. live and be successful in big cities around the world. With it she creates an image of an intellectual, urban avant-garde, "the latest generation of African emigrants". At the same time, this highly perceived essay marks a turning point in the perception of Africans, which points away from "traditional ideas and stereotypes of Africa".
In 2011, the literary magazine Granta Selasi's first story, The Sex Lives of African Girls , appeared in her debut novel in 2013, These things don't just happen (English original title: Ghana Must Go ), which received worldwide attention. Together with the writers Priya Basil and Chika Unigwe as well as the writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes , she took part in the Tuebingen Poetics Lecturer in 2014. The four represent what Taiye Selasi calls “Afropolitan Literature”.
2019 salasi was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.
Works
- Novels
- These things don't just happen (original title: Ghana Must Go , translated by Adelheid Zöfel). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-072525-7 .
- Short stories
- Aliens of Extraordinary Ability (2014)
- Driver (2013)
- The Sex Lives of African Girls (2011)
- Essays and speeches
- There is no African literature . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , number 205 of September 5, 2013, p. 14 (speech at the opening of the Berlin International Literature Festival on Wednesday, September 4, 2013).
Web links
- Literature by and about Taiye Selasi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Taiye Selasi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Taiye Selasi at Perlentaucher.de
- Taiye Selasi website .
- Taiye Selasi: Bye-Bye Babar , Feature , March 3, 2005 ( English ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lost in Transnation . Portrait of Simone Meier , Tages-Anzeiger , April 11, 2013
- ^ Vita of Taiye Selasi at S. Fischer Verlag
- ↑ a b Ijoma Mangold : Out of Africa . Zeit Literatur N ° 12 - March 2013, pp. 4–9
- ^ Gaby Wood: Waterstones Eleven: interview with Taiye Selasi . The Telegraph , Jan. 14, 2013
- ↑ Johan Dehoust: Family Crash: When the Trauma Returns . Spiegel Online, April 12, 2013
- ↑ Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu: Bye-Bye, Babar . The Lip Magazine, March 3, 2005
- ^ "Afropolitans" in literature: Cosmopolitan citizens with African roots , essay by Claudia Kramatschek on SWR2 Radio on April 16, 2015, accessed May 5, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selasi, Taiye |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd November 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |