Helen Oyeyemi

Helen ( Olajumoke ) Oyeyemi ( born 1984 ) is a British writer of Nigerian descent. Born in the West African Nigeria, she moved with four years to London.

Their highly acclaimed debut album The Icarus Girl, she wrote as a 19 -year-old within seven months before their final exam as a student. It has been translated to today in 14 different languages. Oyeyemi now studying political science and social sciences at Cambridge and has two more novels published.

Works

  • The Icarus Girl, 2004 German: The Icarus Girl. Novel, Berlin 2005
  • The Opposite House, 2007 German: The Somewhere - house. Novel, Berlin 2007
  • White is for Witching, 2009 - won a Somerset Maugham Award 2010
  • Mr Fox (2011 ), 2011
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