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Helen Oyeyemi

February 2024

  • Charles Bridge on a foggy morning in Prague, Czech Republic

    Book of the day
    Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi review – a wild ride through Prague

    Stories within a story tease readers and characters alike in Oyeyemi’s shape‑shifting hen weekend tale

January 2024

  • Helen Oyeyemi<br>Portrait of Helen Oyeyemi who is a British novelist and writer of short stories. She lives since 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic and the portraits were done in the office of her Czech publisher.

    Books interview
    Helen Oyeyemi: ‘I like other humans mediated through art’

    The novelist on why her adopted home, Prague, is so hard to write about, her regard for style over subject matter, and taking sick days from school to read Ali Smith

October 2023

  • Pile of the six shortlisted books

    A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

    Six books are up for the award celebrating innovative fiction, including Benjamin Myers’ account of St Cuthbert and a ‘great trans novel’ set in a small northern town

March 2023

  • Mayowa Ogunnaike (Gretel) in Hansel and Gretel by Vicki Igbokwe @ The Place Theatre. (Opening 15-12-18)

    Top 10s
    Top 10 retold fairytales

    The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now

November 2021

  • Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Hlen Oyeyemi is photographed at the Royal Academy in London.

    Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi review – all aboard the mystery train

    A couple’s romantic journey turns into a trip of a different sort in this dazzling if inscrutable novel

February 2021

  • Nicole Kidman in the 2002 film of The Hours.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 classic stories retold

    From Zadie Smith’s new take on Howards End to Michael Cunningham’s reworked Virginia Woolf, these tales refresh books we thought we knew

April 2019

  • Gingerbread house decorated with colorful candies over Christmas tree lights background<br>MNR655 Gingerbread house decorated with colorful candies over Christmas tree lights background

    Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi review – a modern fairytale

    Fabulous elements are mixed with everyday life and references to Brexit in an intriguing mother-daughter story about origins

March 2019

  • Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Hlen Oyeyemi is photographed at the Royal Academy in London.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Helen Oyeyemi: ‘I had such a lovely time dating different cities’

    The author on her passion for food, living in Prague and the critics who told her to ‘live a bit’ after publishing her first novel while at school

May 2016

  • Kate Summerscale

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: The Wicked Boy; What’s Yours Is Not Yours; The Black Prince of Florence

    What the critics thought of The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale, What’s Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, The Black Prince of Florence by Catherine Fletcher
  • Sarah Patterson in the 1984 film of The Company of Wolves.

    Books blog
    Follow the breadcrumbs: why fairytales are magic for modern fiction

    Breaking the conventions of literary and genre storytelling, these narratives have appealed to writers from Angela Carter to Helen Oyeyemi
  • Helen Oyeyemi.

    What Is Yours Is Not Yours review – spellbinding stories

    Helen Oyeyemi’s new collection is rich with magical imagination and lush prose

April 2016

  • Helen Oyeyemi

    What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi – short stories from a rare talent

    Oyeyemi struggles against the confines of the short story in pieces that range from beautiful, simple fables to tricksy fantasies

October 2015

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    Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi review – serious issues, fairytale narrative

    Helen Oyeyemi’s fifth novel finds her treating the horrors of racism in 1950s America with gentle, magical style

March 2014

  • Helen Oyeyemi

    Boy, Snow, Bird review – Helen Oyeyemi plays with myth and fairytale

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    Meet the author
    Helen Oyeyemi: 'I'm interested in the way women disappoint one another'

January 2014

  • Okey Ndibe

    Guardian Africa network
    Foreign Gods Inc by Okey Ndibe - book review

    Acclaimed Nigerian writer's second novel shines in what looks likely to be a stellar year for African literature, says Ainehi Edoro

October 2013

  • The Woman In Black

    Books blog
    Halloween spirits: literature's haunted houses

    Jane Bradley: From Horace Walpole to Helen Oyeyemi, writers' imaginations are still possessed by these constructions

April 2013

  • Twenty years after Stephen Lawrence's murder, what's changed?

    The murder of Stephen Lawrence shocked Britain and forced the country to take a hard look at itself. On the 20th anniversary of his death we ask Robert Beckford, Helen Oyeyemi, Diane Abbott, Ashley Walters, Kele Okereke and Estelle what impact his death had on them and society

March 2013

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    Alex Clark's best young British novelists

    Ahead of Granta's 2013 list, former Granta editor and veteran of the 2003 judging panel Alex Clark picks her 20 favourites

June 2012

  • Helen Oyeyemi

    Paperback Q&A
    Paperback Q&A: Helen Oyeyemi on Mr Fox

    Helen Oyeyemi on how she ignored her own plan for retelling the Bluebeard story, and reveals that ballet and doo-wop inspire her

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