Helen Oyeyemi
The highly gited writer Helen Oyeyemi is among the winners of various literary Awards as announced by the prestigious Society of Authors in the UK. She won £3,000 for her latest novel White is for Witching published last November.
The winners in full:
The Elizabeth Longford Prize
Winner: Tristram Hunt received £5,000 for The Frock-Coated Communist – The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Allen Lane)
The Travelling Scholarships
Winners: Sam North, Lemn Sissay and Roma Tearne - each received £1,500
The Somerset Maugham Awards
Winners: Jacob Polley, £5,000 for Talk of the Town (Picador); Helen Oyeyemi, £3,000 for White is for Witching (Picador), and Ben Wilson, £2,000 for What Price Liberty? (Faber)
The Olive Cook Award
Winner: Carys Davies received £1,000 for The Quiet
Joint runners-up: Susannah Rickards for The Paperback Macbeth and Simon van Booy for Little Birds
The McKitterick Prize
Winner: Raphael Selbourne received £4,000 for Beauty (Tindal Street Press)
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Prize winner: Nadifa Mohamed received £10,000 for Black Mamba Boy (HarperCollins)
Award winners: Evie Wyld received £7,000 for After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (Cape), Jenn Ashworth received £1,500 for A Kind of Intimacy (Arcadia) and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani received £1,500 for I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Weidenfeld)
Poetry Awards
The Eric Gregory Awards
Winners: Phil Brown, Matthew Gregory, Sarah Howe, Abigail Parry and Ahren Warner – each received £4,000
The Cholmondeley Awards
Winners: Gillian Allnutt, Colette Bryce, Gwyneth Lewis and Deryn Rees-Jones – each received £1,500
From the Bookseller
http://www.thebookseller.com/Prizes
White is for Witching: A Novel ~ Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl ~ Helen Oyeyemi
The Opposite House ~ Helen Oyeyemi
Pie-Kah ~ Helen Oyeyemi
Biography - Oyeyemi, Helen (1984-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online ~ Gale Reference Team
Me and my shadow: a remarkable first novel from a young Brit haunts the mind and soul.(Helen Oyeyemi)(Critical Essay): An article from: Black Issues Book Review ~ Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Juniper's Whitening and Victimese (Modern Plays) ~ Helen Oyeyemi
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