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Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist. In 2013 she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.〔(Granta.com )〕 ==Writings== Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, ''The Icarus Girl'', while still at school studying for her A levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. While studying social and political sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, two of her plays, ''Juniper's Whitening'' and ''Victimese'', were performed by fellow students to critical acclaim and subsequently published by Methuen. In 2007 Bloomsbury published Oyeyemi's second novel, ''The Opposite House'', which is inspired by Cuban mythology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11384738 )〕 Her third novel, ''White is for Witching'', described as having "roots in Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe" was published by Picador in May 2009. It was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. A fourth novel, ''Mr Fox'', was published by Picador in June 2011, and a fifth, ''Boy, Snow, Bird'' in 2014.〔 In 2009 Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine’s "25 under 25" list. Oyeyemi was a judge on the Booktrust Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for 2015, and is serving as a judge for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.〔("The Giller Prize expands its jury to five people " ), ''The Globe and Mail'', 14 Jan 2015.〕 Oyeyemi is a lifelong Catholic who has done voluntary work for CAFOD in Kenya.〔(Cafod.org.uk )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Oyeyemi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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