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Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Biography

OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo, a Nigerian publishing house, and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

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2014: Shortlisted as a top ten spoken word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam. 2016: Nominated for the Commonwealth Short Story prize. 2019: Winner for LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller in 2019. 2019: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019. 2019: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 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.

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