
출생: September 20, 1974 – Los Angeles, California, United States
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor whose fiction explores trauma, intimacy, power, and social worlds. She is best known for A Little Life, alongside The People in the Trees and To Paradise. A Little Life was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award, bringing her broad international acclaim.
Hanya Yanagihara was born in Los Angeles in 1974 and grew up across a shifting American map shaped by her father’s medical career, living at different times in Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California, and Texas before returning to Honolulu for high school. That itinerant childhood helped form the alert, observational temperament that later distinguished both her fiction and her editorial work. She studied English at Smith College, graduating in 1995, and moved soon afterward to New York, choosing publishing over the medical path that had surrounded her family life.
"The world teems with difficult truths; Hanya Yanagihara refuses to avoid them"
— Newsweek
"Hanya Yanagihara is already being feted as the next big thing in America for her debut, The People in the Trees"
— The Independent
"Hanya Yanagihara is a writer to marvel at"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Hanya Yanagihara: influential magazine editor by day, best-selling author by night"
— The Guardian
"Writer Hanya Yanagihara is an expert in contrasting realms"
— FLUX
"Hanya Yanagihara is a writer to watch"
— Madison Smartt Bell
"Subversive Novelist Hanya Yanagihara Seeks Her Muse in Pictures"
— Aperture
"Hanya Yanagihara is internationally renowned as one of the most celebrated—and hotly debated—novelists in contemporary US literature"
— System Magazine
"A Little Life announces Hanya Yanagihara as a major American novelist"
— The Wall Street Journal