Background
Helen Oyeyemi was born on December 10, 1984.
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Helen Oyeyemi in Conversation
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Helen Oyeyemi lecturing
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Helen Oyeyemi is interviewed
Greenlight Bookstore, New York City, New York, United States
Helen Oyeyemi at Greenlight Bookstore discussing her book
(Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical...)
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age. It seems that at last Jess has found someone who will understand her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But as she shows Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all.
https://www.amazon.com/Icarus-Girl-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/0747575487/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(In this novel, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall betwe...)
In this novel, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity. Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.”
https://www.amazon.com/Opposite-House-Novel-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/0385513844/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(It is a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and ...)
It is a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Fox-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/159448807X/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(There’s something strange about the Silver family house i...)
There’s something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it’s been home to four generations of Silver women—Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda’s mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Witching-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/159463307X/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(It is a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity...)
It is a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white. And even as Boy, Snow, and Bird are divided, their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another.
https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Snow-Bird-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/1594631395/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not...)
Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—Oyeyemi’s keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZQH30P4/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in c...)
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make.
https://www.amazon.com/Gingerbread-Novel-Helen-Oyeyemi/dp/1594634653/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Helen Oyeyemi was born on December 10, 1984.
Helen attended Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. She studied social and political sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of six novels. She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while studying for her A-levels at school. While at Cambridge University, Oyeyemi saw two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, performed by fellow students to critical acclaim, and subsequently published by Methuen.
In 2007 her second novel, The Opposite House, was published, which is inspired by Cuban mythology. Her third novel, White is for Witching was published by Picador in May 2009. A fourth novel, Mr Fox, was published by Picador in June 2011, and a fifth, Boy, Snow, Bird, in 2014. Oyeyemi published a story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, in 2016. Her latest work, a novel titled Gingerbread, was published in March 2019.
Helen Oyeyemi has proved herself capable of translating precocious literary promise into a sustained career as purveyor of eerie and psychologically rich fiction. Full 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. Her works have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew, Chinese, and Indonesian.
(Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in c...)
2019(In this novel, Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall betwe...)
2007(Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not...)
2016(There’s something strange about the Silver family house i...)
2014(It is a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and ...)
2011(It is a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity...)
2014(Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical...)
2004