- Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi (born
December 10 ,1984 ) is a Britishnovelist . She was born inNigeria and moved toLondon when she was four. She wrote her firstnovel , "The Icarus Girl", while still at school studying for her A levels. After sending the first 20 pages to a publisher, she was offered two-book deal worth a rumoured £400,000. She studied Social and Political Sciences atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge , graduating in2006 . Whilst at Cambridge, two of her plays, "Juniper's Whitening" and "Victimese", were performed by fellow students to critical acclaim and subsequently published byMethuen . In2007 Bloomsbury published her second novel, "The Opposite House" which is inspired byCuban mythology . She lives inLondon but currently resides inNew York .External links
* [http://naijanet.com/news/source/2005/jan/10/1001.html Profile] from "
The Guardian "
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071030.woyeyemi30/BNStory/Entertainment/home Too Talented to be This Young] from theGlobe and Mail
* [http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1139 Author Page] onPEN American Center website
* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=879§ion=1 Author Page] on bloomsbury.com
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