Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Oyinkan Braithwaite
Born1988 (age 36–37)
Lagos, Nigeria
OccupationNovelist, Author
NationalityNigerian
Alma mater Kingston University
University of Surrey
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Period2010 - present
Notable works My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. [1] [2] She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the UK. Braithwaite is best known for her debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer . [3]

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Life

Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1988. She spent most of her childhood in the UK after her family moved to Southgate, London. [3] 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 the University of Surrey and Kingston University before moving back to Lagos in 2012. [4] [5]

She has worked as an assistant editor in publishing house Kachifo Limited [6] and as a production manager at Ajapa World, an education and entertainment company. [7]

Career

Braithwaite's debut book, My Sister, the Serial Killer , was published by Doubleday Books in 2018 to wide acclaim. [8] Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, [9] WePresent and Amazon Original Stories' Hush Collection. [10]

Braithwaite is also an illustrator, [11] and illustrated the cover of the Nigerian edition of her novel, which was published by Narrative Landscape Publishers. [12]

Her 2025 novel, Cursed Daughters, had a "very different foundation than the thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer, which Braithwaite admits she was eager to get 'as far away from' as she could, according to an interview with Elle. [13]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

  • My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018, ISBN   9781786495983) [19] [20]
  • The Baby is Mine (2021, ISBN   9781838952563) [21] [22]
  • Cursed Daughters (2025, ISBN   9781805463368) [23] [24] [25] [26]

Collections of short stories

  • The Driver (2010)
  • Treasure (2020)

Critical studies and reviews of Braithwaite's work

  • Chow-Quesada, Emily (Fall 2024). "The detectives who kill : Black female detectives in the work of Oyinkan Braithwaite and Nnedi Okorafor". Clues. 42 (2): 98–109.

References

  1. ↑ "Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans listed for $40,000 2019 Women's Prize for Literature". Punch Newspapers. May 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ O'Grady, Carrie (January 4, 2019). "My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Lea, Richard (January 15, 2019). "Oyinkan Braithwaite's serial-killer thriller: would you help your murderer sister?". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Braithwaite, Oyinkan (2019). My Sister, the Serial Killer. Atlantic Books. ISBN   9781786495976.
  5. ↑ "Oyinkan Braithwaite On Waiting For A Dream". The Lady's Room. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on March 12, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ BellaNaija.com (March 27, 2018). "Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel "My Sister, the Serial Killer" to be made into a Movie". BellaNaija. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Lea, Richard (May 29, 2019). "Oyinkan Braithwaite: I just had high standards for myself". Gulf News. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  8. ↑ O'Grady, Carrie (January 4, 2019). "My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest". The Guardian. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  9. ↑ Braithwaite, Oyinkan. "THE LAST TATTOO". McSweeney's. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Oyinkan Braithwaite's Treasure". The Fiction Addiction. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  11. ↑ Peterson, Angeline. "Check Out Oyinkan Braithwaite's Digital Illustration Instagram Page!". Brittle Paper. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  12. ↑ Adebayo, Ayobami (January 11, 2019). "Stuck with Them: An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite". LA Review of Books. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  13. ↑ Lauren Puckett-Pope (November 4, 2025). "With Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite Makes a Deliberate Shift Away From Her Bestselling Debut". Elle . Archived from the original on November 24, 2025. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
  14. ↑ Heloise Wood (July 24, 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie nominated for 2019 Booker Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Braithwaite, Rankin and Wesolowski make Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards shortlist | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  16. ↑ "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  17. ↑ Flood, Alison (June 30, 2020). "Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards". The Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Harper, McKinty shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier crime award". Books+Publishing. June 15, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  19. ↑ Williams, S. Zainab (November 25, 2025). "The Only Short Book You Need to Squeeze In at Year's End". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  20. ↑ Braithwaite, Oyinkan (March 19, 2025). "'Like seeing an old friend': Oyinkan Braithwaite on My Sister, the Serial Killer becoming a ballet". The Guardian. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  21. ↑ Feeny, Madeleine (May 13, 2021). "The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite review". The Standard. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  22. ↑ Kan, Toni (January 2, 2022). ""The Baby is Mine": King Solomon of the pandemic -Peju Akande". The Lagos Review. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  23. ↑ Leu, Chelsea (September 22, 2025). "Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite review – a family doomed in love". The Guardian. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  24. ↑ "Oyinkan Braithwaite's new novel tests the power of free will against a generations-long curse". CBC. December 17, 2025. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  25. ↑ Rascoe, Ayesha (November 2, 2025). "Oyinkan Braithwaite discusses her novel 'Cursed Daughters'". NPR. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  26. ↑ Nicol, Patricia (September 27, 2025). "Oyinkan Braithwaite's new novel". The Times and The Sunday Times. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
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