The acclaimed, young British novelist Helen Oyeyemi will participate in a discussion broadcast live online with Fairfield University professor and author Phil Klay, starting at 12 noon, Thursday, Oct. 27.
— an announcement from Fairfield University
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Helen Oyeyemi will speak at 12 noon, Thursday, in a free, online event.
According to The Guardian, Oyeyemi has crushed “fables and fairytales down to a powder and then laced her fiction with it like some kind of literary hallucinogen.” Her latest novel, Peaces, takes a couple on a former tea-smuggling train where the laws of physics do not quite apply.
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Oyemi received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best Young British Novelists.
According to The Guardian, Oyeyemi has crushed “fables and fairytales down to a powder and then laced her fiction with it like some kind of literary hallucinogen.” Her latest novel, Peaces, takes a couple on a former tea-smuggling train where the laws of physics do not quite apply.
“[She] is an incredible writer whose work blends myth and modern realities, offering us not only new ways of situating ourselves in the modern world, but of interacting with the emotional and symbolic legacies of the stories we imbibe since childhood,” Klay said.
Oyeyemi is also the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, along with five other novels — Boy, Snow, Bird, was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best Young British Novelists.
Klay is a National Book Award-winning author and instructor in the university’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
Inspired Writers Series events are designed not only to provide encouragement and inspiration for writers, but also to inform, entertain, and enlighten any participant with lively discussions from top authors. All events in the series are free and open to the public.