NKNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring
Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His
debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York
Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book
Award and the William Saroyan International
Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the
Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang
All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book
Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Waterstones
Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag
Awards, and selected as a New York Times Top
Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National
Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.
