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Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii. She is best known for her bestselling novel A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, and for being the editor-in-chief of T Magazine. Early life Hanya Yanagihara was born in 1974 in Los Angeles. Her father, hematologist/oncologist Ronald Yanagihara, is from Hawaii, and her mother was born in Seoul. Yanagihara is partly of Japanese descent through her father and partly of Korean descent through her mother. As a child, Yanagihara moved frequently with her family, living in Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California and Texas. She attended the Punahou School in Hawaii before graduating from Smith College in 1995.Yanagihara has said that her father introduced her as a girl to the work of Philip Roth and to "British writers of a certain age", such as Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch, and Barbara Pym. Of Pym and Brookner, she says, "there is a suspicion of the craft that the male writers of their generation didn't have, a metaphysical reckoning of what is it actually doing for the world". She has said that "the contemporary writers I admire most are Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and John Banville". Career After college, Yanagihara moved to New York and worked for several years as a publicist. She wrote and was an editor for Condé Nast Traveler.Her first novel, The People in the Trees, partly based on the real-life case of the virologist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, was praised as one of the best novels of 2013.Yanagihara's A Little Life was published on March 10, 2015, and received widespread critical acclaim. The book was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction, the 2016 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2015 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Yanagihara was also selected as a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction. A Little Life defied the expectations of its editor, of Yanagihara's agent, and of the author herself, that it would not sell well.Yanagihara described writing the book at its best as "glorious as surfing; it felt like being carried aloft on something I couldn't conjure but was lucky enough to have caught, if for just a moment. At its worst, I felt I was somehow losing my ownership over the book. It felt, oddly, like being one of those people who adopt a tiger or lion when the cat's a baby and cuddly and manageable, and then watch in dismay and awe when it turns on them as an adult".In 2015, she left Condé Nast to become a deputy editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She has said that after she published her best selling sophomore novel, people in the publishing industry were baffled by her decision to take a job at T. Describing the publishing world as "a provincial community, more or less as snobby as the fashion industry", she said, "I'd get these underhanded comments like, 'oh, I never knew there were words [in T Magazine] worth reading'". Of working as an editor while writing fiction on the side, she says, "I've never done it any other way". In 2017, she became the editor-in-chief of T.Yanagihara's third novel, To Paradise, was published on January 11, 2022, and reached number one on The New York Times best seller list. Awards and honours A Little Life: Winner of 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction A Little Life: Shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize A Little Life: Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction A Little Life: Shortlisted for the 2016 Women's Prize for Fiction A Little Life: Shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary AwardWorks and publications The People in the Trees, 2013 A Little Life, 2015 To Paradise, 2022References External links Interview on Meet The Writers with Georgina Godwin at Soundcloud. Discover the Hanya Yanagihara popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hanya Yanagihara books.
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterf...
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The People in the Trees
Hanya YanagiharaA thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collidefrom the bestselling author of National Book Award–nomi...
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People in Trouble
Sarah Schulman'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in...
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Stranger, Father, Beloved
Taylor LarsenA Huffington Post “2017 Hottest Reads of The Summer” Pick “Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos. A brillian...
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Excommunicated
Craig HoyleA heartwrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive BrethrenAfter coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand E...
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What Could Be Saved
Liese O'Halloran SchwarzWhen a mysterious man claims to be her longmissing brother, a woman must confront her family’s closely guarded secrets in this “delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance” (J...
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One of the Boys
Daniel MagarielA “gripping and heartfelt” (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is “one of t...
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Going Dutch
James GregorONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELS OF THE YEAR“A charming, wellobserved debut,” (NPR) featuring a gay male graduate student who falls for his brilliant female class...
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Die Frau des Obersts
Rosa LiksomDie grausame Verbindung von Ideologie und LiebeIn einer Nacht lässt eine Frau ihr langes Leben in einem Dorf im Norden Finnlands Revue passieren. Schon mit vier Jahren schien ihr S...
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Meine dunkle Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell»Ein eindringlicher, wirklich unvergesslicher, tiefer Roman mit einem irrsinnigen erzählerischen Sog.« Vea Kaiser, ZDF »Literarisches Quartett«Vanessa ist gerade fünfzehn, als sie ...
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We Are Only Ghosts
Jeffrey L RichardsAn extraordinary, emotionally intense novel spanning World War II Europe to 1960s New York City with an unsettling psychological edge, We Are Only Ghosts depicts not only the horro...
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Die einsame Stadt
Olivia Laing»Laing hat einen Klassiker geschrieben. Eine atemberaubende Hommage an die Kunst und daran, wie Einsamkeit uns empfänglicher macht für die Fremdartigkeit anderer.« Deborah LevyMit ...
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Mein Ein und Alles
Gabriel Tallent»Ein Buch, das man mit angehaltenem Atem verschlingt.« Washington PostNach dem frühen Tod ihrer Mutter wächst Turtle Alveston weltabgeschieden in den nordkalifornischen Wäldern auf...
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Summary of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
InstareadSummary of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | Preview: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara tells the story of Jude St. Francis and the people in his life. Jude, left partiall...
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To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the awardwinning, bestselling author of the classic A Little Lifea bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versi...