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Yaa Gyasi

Novelist

Ghana / United States · b. 1989

Ghanaian-American novelist, author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom. She was born in Mampong, Ghana, raised largely in Huntsville, Alabama, and wrote much of her first novel while at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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What does the first sixty minutes of your day look like?

Usually, my irrational bargaining goes something like this: I start working at around 10 if I’m feeling motivated, 11 if I’m not. I reread the work from the day before and/or passages that I think I got right in order to try to set the tone. I write a sentence. I read it aloud. I delete the sentence. I look at the clock and wonder if it’s too early to think about lunch. I tell myself that, if I can make it to 300 words, I can break for lunch.

Recorded The Guardian, 'My writing day' series, 28 October 2017 source

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