Draft:Maya Binyam
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Comment: I think her novel, Hangman, meets WP:NBOOK, so I recommend you to submit a draft about it instead. Gheus (talk) 14:51, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
Maya Binyam is an author from Los Angeles. She published Hangman in 2023, a novel about exile and diaspora. In Hangman, a man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years in America to seek out his dying brother.
Binyam is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. She has also been long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and the Dublin Literary Award. She has published work in the Paris Review[1] , the New Yorker, and Best American Short Stories.
Binyam earned a B.A. at Yale University.
She currently teaches literature at Claremont McKenna College and is an advisory editor of the Paris Review.
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[edit]- ^ "Maya Binyam". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
- ^ Lee, Cora. "Shifting Gears with Maya Binyam". Byline.
- ^ Passmore, Lynsey (March 5, 2024). "Announcing the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist!". Women's Prize.
- ^ Relations, Bard Public. "Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Maya Binyam". www.bard.edu.
- ^ "Maya Binyam's Hangman | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. July 29, 2024.