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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1984 and raised in London from the age of four. She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school, and has since published the novels The Opposite House, White Is for Witching, Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread, Peaces, Parasol Against the Axe and A New New Me, along with the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. She won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010 and the PEN Open Book Aw...