Oyinkan Braithwaite
Oyinkan Braithwaite | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1988 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Occupation | Novelist, Author |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | Kingston University University of Surrey Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Period | 2010 - present |
| Notable works | My Sister, the Serial Killer |
Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer.[1][2] She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the UK. Braithwaite is best known for her debut novel My Sister, the Serial Killer.[3]
Life
[edit]Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1988. She spent most of her childhood in the UK after her family moved to Southgate, London.[3] She had her primary school education in London then returned to Lagos when her brother was born in 2001. She studied law and creative writing at University of Surrey and Kingston University before moving back to Lagos in 2012.[4][5]
She has worked as an assistant editor in publishing house Kachifo Limited[6] and as a production manager at Ajapa World, an education and entertainment company.[7]
Career
[edit]Braithwaite's debut book, My Sister, the Serial Killer, was published by Doubleday Books in 2018 to wide acclaim.[8] Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's,[9] WePresent, and Amazon Original Stories' Hush Collection.[10]
Braithwaite is also an illustrator,[11] and she illustrated the cover of the Nigerian edition of her novel, which was published by Narrative Landscape Publishers.[12]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- 2014: Shortlisted as a top ten spoken word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam
- 2016: Nominated for the Commonwealth Short Story prize
- 2019: Winner for LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller in 2019
- 2019: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019
- 2019: Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019[13]
- 2019: Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards[14]
- 2020: Winner, 2020 Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards[15][16]
- 2020: Shortlisted for the 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award[17]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
- The Baby is Mine (2021)
Collections of short stories
[edit]- The Driver (2010)
- Treasure (2020)
References
[edit]- ^ "Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans listed for $40,000 2019 Women's Prize for Literature". Punch Newspapers. May 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ O'Grady, Carrie (January 4, 2019). "My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ a b Lea, Richard (January 15, 2019). "Oyinkan Braithwaite's serial-killer thriller: would you help your murderer sister?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Braithwaite, Oyinkan (2019). My Sister, the Serial Killer. Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781786495976.
- ^ "Oyinkan Braithwaite On Waiting For A Dream". The Lady's Room. March 27, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ BellaNaija.com (March 27, 2018). "Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel "My Sister, the Serial Killer" to be made into a Movie". BellaNaija. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Lea, Richard (May 29, 2019). "Oyinkan Braithwaite: I just had high standards for myself". Gulf News. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ O'Grady, Carrie (January 4, 2019). "My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest". The Guardian. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ^ Braithwaite, Oyinkan. "THE LAST TATTOO". McSweeney's. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ "Oyinkan Braithwaite's Treasure". The Fiction Addiction. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ Peterson, Angeline. "Check Out Oyinkan Braithwaite's Digital Illustration Instagram Page!". Brittle Paper. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ Adebayo, Ayobami (January 11, 2019). "Stuck with Them: An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite". LA Review of Books. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ Heloise Wood (July 24, 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie nominated for 2019 Booker Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ "Braithwaite, Rankin and Wesolowski make Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards shortlist | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ^ Flood, Alison (June 30, 2020). "Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards". The Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Harper, McKinty shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier crime award". Books+Publishing. June 15, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
External links
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| International | |
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| National | |
| Other | |
- Alumni of Kingston University
- Alumni of the University of Surrey
- Black British women writers
- People from Southgate, London
- Nigerian women novelists
- Nigerian women short story writers
- Nigerian short story writers
- Writers from the London Borough of Enfield
- 21st-century Nigerian novelists
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- 21st-century Nigerian women writers
- Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Living people
- 1988 births
- Anthony Award winners