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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

Birth place: Queens, New York City, New York, USA

8 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 2018 |14 Interview Interview: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Lightspeed, October 2018
February 2019 14 Essay The Birthmark The New York Times Book Review, February 17, 2019
February 2019 14 Review We Cast a Shadow The New York Times Book Review, February 17, 2019
March 2019 |7 Review Friday Black Strange Horizons, 18 March 2019
May 2023 6 Interview By the Book: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The New York Times Book Review, May 14, 2023
May 2023 9|9.1 Review Chain-Gang All-Stars The New York Times Book Review, May 21, 2023
December 2023 10|10.1 Review Chain-Gang All-Stars The New York Times Book Review, December 10, 2023
December 2023 22|22.1 Review Chain-Gang All-Stars The New York Times Book Review, December 3, 2023

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2018 Collection Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2023 Novel Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2019 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Friday Black Nominee
2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Friday Black Nominee
2023 Goodreads Choice Awards Debut Novel Chain-Gang All-Stars Nominee
2023 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Chain-Gang All-Stars Nominee
2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Chain-Gang All-Stars Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Chain-Gang All-Stars Finalist

The author grew up in Spring Valley, New York, USA, and went to the State University of New York at Albany.
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