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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer's Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Friday Black is his first book.

Awards: NBA (2018) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

Novels

Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023)

Collections

Friday Black (2018)

Books containing stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Best American Short Stories 2019 (2019)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Anthony Doerr

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (2019)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 5)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and Carmen Maria Machado

Awards

2018 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : Friday Black

Award nominations

	2024 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2024 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (longlist) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award (shortlist) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2024 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize (nominee) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2023 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2022 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction (shortlist) : Chain-Gang All-Stars
	2019 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Friday Black

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah recommends

The Road to the Country (2024)
Chigozie Obioma
"A writer who wields both the grand and the intimate with incredible precision and power. Obioma reminds us that it is all real, even the surreal, and in his hands anything is possible. A wonderous novel."

Say Hello to My Little Friend (2024)
Jennine Capó Crucet
"Say Hello to My Little Friend is a masterclass in pace and precision. Crucet can make you cry before you've even realized you've become invested and make you laugh even through the hurt. Brilliant."

Wandering Stars (2024)
Tommy Orange
"If there was any doubt after his incredible debut, there should be none now: Tommy Orange is one of our most important writers. The way he weaves time and life together, demands we remember how our history shapes us. In this novel the pain and resilience of generations are summoned beautifully. A wonderous journey and a necessary reminder."

Last Acts (2024)
Alexander Sammartino
"Last Acts announces a brilliant new voice. Sammartino is precise, funny and will break your heart all at once. Not to be missed."

Death Valley (2023)
Melissa Broder
"A journey unlike any you've read before. Death Valley is a beautifully wild leap into the mysterious desert that is grief."

The Best Possible Experience (2023)
Nishanth Injam
"The Best Possible Experience is a full-hearted, brilliant debut full of necessary beauty. Injam writes of longing, of love, of home and of the Indian diaspora, and as one reads the stories, they find that together they create an epic mosaic of life."

Small Worlds (2023)
Caleb Azumah Nelson
"In his beautiful new novel Nelson summons the sounds of Black Youth, love and discovery to the page. A celebration of the heart."

House of Cotton (2023)
Monica Brashears
"Monica Brashears is a stunning new talent. Her debut, House of Cotton, is an incredible work of harsh beauty and a novel you won't forget."

If I Survive You (2022)
Jonathan Escoffery
"If I Survive You is a collection of brilliant wit, real heart, and electric humor. Jonathan Escoffery masterfully mines from his life and emerges, in this debut, as a talent not to be ignored."

My Monticello (2021)
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
"There is a special pleasure in discovering a voice that is vital and unlike anything else you've known before. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is such a voice. One that is necessary and brimming with both heart and imagination, Johnson's My Monticello is a beautiful debut work of art."

How to Wrestle a Girl (2021)
Venita Blackburn
"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty."

The Atmospherians (2021)
Alex McElroy
"The Atmospherians is what happens when an amazing idea meets stunning awareness meets brilliant writing. A book dazzling with power."

Milk Blood Heat (2021)
Dantiel W Moniz
"The stories in this book are rigorous and complex, lush and surprising. They are visceral, full of the intimate awe of existing in flesh. A wonder of a debut."

Days of Distraction (2020)
Alexandra Chang
"Chang writes with wit and sharpness...An important, gratifying read."

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