Recently updated on March 8th, 2019 at 02:09 pm
Ms. Helen Oyeyemi, the author of the globally acclaimed novel, “The Icarus Girl”, has been declared winner of the PEN America OPEN BOOK Award 2017 for her 2016 book “What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours” with a cash prize of $5,000.
She won the prize for the category of the “Exceptional Book-Length Work of Literature By An Author of Color Published In 2016”.
The judges for the category were Ishmael Beah, Major Jackson and Bich Minh Nguyen.
Helen Oyeyemi, who had received the Somerset Maughan Award in 2010, was in 2013 named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.
The impressive productions from her literary career include: What Is Not Yours is Not Yours (2016); Boy, Snow, Bird (2014); Mr. Fox (2011); White For Witching (2009); The Opposite House (2007); The Icarus Girl (2005), and Juniper’s Whitening and Victimese (2005).
