The Granta and Booker have got proper weight behind them and proper credibility.

BBC: How has the Granta list shaped the literary landscape?

The list was compiled by Granta, an influential British literary magazine, and also included Zadie Smith, with whom Ms Ali is bound to be compared.

ECONOMIST: New British fiction

John Freeman, Granta's editor since 2009, tells The Guardian the biggest challenge for the judges has been "how to come up with an amalgamated definition of hope for the novel as a form".

BBC: How has the Granta list shaped the literary landscape?

" Interest in Ms. Selasi began building when an earlier short story, "The Sex Life of African Girls, " was published in Granta in 2011 and later included in "The Best American Short Stories 2012.

WSJ: Growing Up With a Panther Mom: Taiye Selasi

Based on a short memoir by the talented, acid-tongued journalist Lynn Barber (first published in Granta magazine), the movie is set in 1962, when England was gradually emerging from postwar austerities and the fabled antics of swinging London were just getting under way.

NEWYORKER: An Education