Oyinkan Braithwaite

Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-UK novelist and writer.[1][2] She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the UK.

Oyinkan Braithwaite
Born1988
Lagos, Nigeria
OccupationNovelist, Author
NationalityNigeria
Alma materKingston University
Surrey University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Period2010s
Notable worksMy Sister, the Serial Killer
Website
www.oyinkanbraithwaite.com

Life

Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1988 then spent most of her childhood in the UK when her family moved to Southgate in north 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 Surrey University and Kingston University before moving back to Lagos in 2012.[4][5]

She has worked as an assistant editor in publishing house Kachio.[6]

Writing career

Deadline described her debut book My Sister, the Serial Killer as a darkly comedic story[5] and the book has been praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire and authors Ayobami Adebayo and Edgar Cantero[7] and considered for a movie by the producers of Baby Driver.[6] It has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and was the second-highest best-selling title on the list as of July 2019, with 13,052 units sold according to Nielsen BookScan.[8]

Awards and nominations
  • 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[8]
  • 2019: Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards[9]
  • 2020: Shortlisted for the 2020 Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards[10]

Bibliography
  • The Driver (2010) – short stories
  • My Sister the Serial Killer (2018) – novel

References
  1. Published. "Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans listed for $40,000 2019 Women's Prize for Literature". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Braithwaite, Oyinkan (2019). My Sister, the Serial Killer. Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781786495976.
  5. "Oyinkan Braithwaite On Waiting For A Dream". The Lady's Room. March 27, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  6. 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.
  7. Mordi, Mellisa. "16 Questions With Oyinkan Braithwaite". guardian.ng. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  8. "Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie nominated for 2019 Booker Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  9. "Braithwaite, Rankin and Wesolowski make Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards shortlist | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  10. "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
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