Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. She was born in

Lagos Lagos ( Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 f ...

and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the UK.

Life

Braithwaite was born in

in 1988. She spent most of her childhood in the UK after her family moved to Southgate in north London. 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 , mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , ...

before moving back to Lagos in 2012. She has worked as an assistant editor in publishing house Kachifo and as a production manager at Ajapa World, an education and entertainment company.

Career

Braithwaite's debut book, '' My Sister, the Serial Killer'', was published by Doubleday Books in 2018 to wide acclaim. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, WePresent, and Amazon Original Stories' Hush Collection. Braithwaite is also an illustrator, and she illustrated the cover of the Nigerian edition of her novel, which was published by Narrative Landscape Publishers.

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Commonwealth Short Story prize The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 to 5,000 words). The prize is open to citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations aged 18 and over. The Commonwealth Shor ...

* 2019: Winner for LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller in 2019 * 2019: Shortlisted for the

Women's Prize for Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...

in 2019 *2019: Longlisted for the

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ...

in 2019 *2019: Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards *2020: Winner, 2020 Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards *2020: Shortlisted for the 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

Bibliography

* ''The Driver'' (2010) – short stories * '' My Sister, the Serial Killer'' (2018) – novel * ''Treasure'' (2020) - short story * ''The Baby is Mine'' (2021) - novel

References

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