Helen Oyeyemi
Author of The Icarus Girl, written while she was still at school...
Precocious novelist. She was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was four. She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school studying for her A levels.
Oyeyemi read Social and Political Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, have been performed by the student drama community to critical acclaim and subsequently published by Methuen. In 2007, she published her second novel, The Opposite House. Her latest book is White is for Witching which has been described as having "roots in Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe". She lives in London but currently resides in New York.
Helen was selected as one of the Waterstone's 25 Authors For the Future in 2007, and was one of the featured authors in the first Bloomsbury Discovery Season, organised by Waterstone's Gower Street.
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Name: Helen Oyeyemi
Date of birth: 1984
Place of birth: Nigeria
Current home: London
Education: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Similar Authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta
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White is for Witching
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In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity....
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White is for Witching
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| Published: | 01/05/2009 |
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| Published: | 05/05/2008 |
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| Published: | 06/02/2006 |
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Juniper's Whitening: AND Victimese - Modern Plays
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| Published: | 20/01/2005 |
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Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying by a sensational new writer Juniper's Whitening "Tell me this - is it... Read more
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