Books & Authors
Award-Winning British Novelist Helen Oyeyemi Speaks at Fairfield U in a Free, Online Event Thursday
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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
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. You can register for the event here. Oyemi received a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.