Helen Oyeyemi

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Helen Oyeyemi (2012)

Helen (Olajumoke) Oyeyemi (* 1984 ) is a British author.

Life

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As a 19-year-old, she wrote her first work Das Ikarus Mädchen within seven months of her final exams as a student. It has been translated into 14 different languages ​​to date. Oyeyemi is now studying political science and social sciences at Cambridge and has published two other novels.

Works

  • The Icarus Girl , 2004, German: Das Ikarus-Mädchen. Translation: Anne Spielmann. Roman, Berlin 2005
  • The Opposite House , 2007, German: Das Irgendwo-Haus. Translation: Maria Mill. Roman, Berlin 2007
  • White is for Witching , 2009 - Received a Somerset Maugham Award 2010
  • Mr. Fox , 2011
  • Boy, Snow, Bird , 2014
  • What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours , 2016
    • What you don't have, you don't need . Stories. Translation: Zoë Beck . Hamburg 2018
  • Gingerbread . Picador, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oocities.org/youngadultwriters/oyeyemi.html
  2. ↑ blurb Icarus Girl
personal data
SURNAME Oyeyemi, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olajumoke, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984