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Helen Oyeyemi
, b. 1984
Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi is a British novelist of Nigerian origins. She was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was four. She attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School and wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while studying for her A-Levels. This novel was published in 2005 when she was a student of social and political sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. She had a difficult childhood trying to cope with cultural and racial issues. After Cambridge, she lived a nomadic lifestyle within Europe and finally settled in America where she is a resident writer at the University of Kentucky. Some of her works include: Victimese (2005), The Opposite House (2007), (inspired by Cuban mythology), White is for Witching (2009) (which won the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009 and the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award in 2010), Mr Fox (2011), What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (2016), (which won the PEN Open Book Award in the same year).
Sources:
writersmakeworlds.com (accessed: August 4, 2021);
wikipedia.org (accessed: August 4, 2021).
Bio prepared by Divine Che Neba University of Yaoundé 1, nebankiwang@yahoo.com and Chester Mbangchia, University of Yaoundé 1, mbangchia25@gmail.com
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