5/11/2023 0 Comments Helen oyeyemi what is not yoursSpreading her wings both stylistically and thematically, she has consolidated her fictional talent and matured into a serious contemporary figure. As a result, she has had the unenviable task of growing up as a writer in public with her three further novels. Born in 1984 in Nigeria, Oyeyemi moved aged grew up in south London, where she sought solace from a troubled childhood in fiction writing, finishing her first novel The Icarus Girl aged 18, and having it published to great acclaim while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge. Thanks to the ferocious publicity blitz surrounding her debut, many readers are already well versed in the remarkable newspaper-friendly story of her early success. It is a versatility that has justifies her early acclaim, and in 2013 she was named as one of Granta magazine’s prestigious twenty ‘Best Young British Novelists’. Helen Oyeyemi has proved herself capable of translating precocious literary promise into a sustained career as purveyor of eerie and psychologically rich fiction.įull of sinister doubles, dream worlds and confused identity, Oyeyemi’s novels have applied what one critic has called her “trademark magic realism” to a surprising range of settings and subjects.
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