Oyeyemi, Helen

Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London for most of her life. She wrote her first novel, "The Icarus Girl", while she was still at school, her second novel, "The Opposite House", was published in 2007, her third, "White is for Witching", in 2009 and her fourth, "Mr Fox, " in 2011. Her plays include "Juniper's Whitening" and "Victimese", both of which were performed by fellow students while she was studying at Cambridge University.