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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (born c. 1991) is an American speculative fiction author who wrote the short-story collection Friday Black (2018) and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023). He was named a "5 under 35 Honoree" by the National Book Foundation in 2018 and won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2019.

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