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Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recently Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list.

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Fiction | Issue 129
Fiction | Issue 129

Books and Roses

Helen Oyeyemi

‘A golden chain was fastened around her neck, and on that chain was a key.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129

Helen Oyeyemi | My Writing Playlist

Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi on what she listens to while writing and editing.

In Conversation | Issue 129
In Conversation | Issue 129

Helen Oyeyemi | Podcast

Ted Hodgkinson & Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi speaks to Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, magic in her work, and how as a girl she wrote alternate endings to the classics.

Fiction | Issue 123 padlock
Fiction | Issue 123 padlock

Boy, Snow, Bird

Helen Oyeyemi

‘I didn’t enclose a note, though there were a few things I’d have liked to say. Restraint is classier.’

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