Helen Oyeyemi is the author of four novels, including White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr Fox. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best Young British Novelists.
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Helen Oyeyemi is the author of four novels, including White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr Fox. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best Young British Novelists.
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