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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London since the age of four.She completed her book The Icarus Girljust before her 19th birthday while studying for her A-level exams. She is now a student of social and political sciences at Cambridge University.Oyeyemi is currently at work on her second novel.
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Listen to Helen Oyeyemi read from The Icarus Girl on NPR. >>MoreListen to her interview on the BBC. >>More"I didn't know I was writing a novel..." on Naijanet.com. >>More"When the very young write that first big book" in The Christian Science Monitor. >>More