Oyinkan Braithwaite
She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Braithwaite is best known for her 2018 debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer.
Oyinkan Braithwaite
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- Born
- 1988
- Nationality
- Nigeria · United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · editor · production manager · illustrator
- Known for
- My Sister and the Serial Killer
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She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Braithwaite is best known for her 2018 debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer.
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Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian and British editor, illustrator and novelist, among other activities. The editor was born in Lagos.
Oyinkan Braithwaite studied at Kingston University and University of Surrey. The editor worked for Kachifo Limited. Oyinkan Braithwaite is active in belletristic literature, fiction and literary activity.
Works include My Sister, the Serial Killer. Languages used include English, Nigerian Pidgin and Yoruba. The editor received Anthony Award for Best First Novel, OkayAfrica 100 Women and The British Book Awards.
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Life
Life
Braithwaite was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1988. She spent most of her childhood in the UK after her family moved to Southgate, London. She had her primary-school education in London then returned to Lagos when her brother was born in 2001. She studied law and creative writing at the University of Surrey and Kingston University, before moving back to Lagos in 2012. She has worked as an assistant editor in publishing house Kachifo Limited and as a production manager at Ajapa World, an education and entertainment company.
Career
Career
Braithwaite's debut book, My Sister, the Serial Killer, was published by Doubleday Books in 2018 to wide acclaim. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, WePresent, and Amazon Original Stories' Hush Collection. Braithwaite is also an illustrator, and illustrated the cover of the Nigerian edition of her novel, which was published by Narrative Landscape Publishers. Her 2025 novel, Cursed Daughters, had a "very different foundation than the thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer, which Braithwaite admits she was eager to get 'as far away from' as she could, according to an interview with Elle.
Awards and nominations
2014: Shortlisted as a top ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam 2016: Nominated for the Commonwealth Short Story prize 2019: Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller in 2019 2019: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019 2019: Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019 2019: Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards 2020: Winner of the 2020 Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2020: Shortlisted for the 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2026: Winner of the 2026 British Book Award for Audiobook Fiction of the Year 2026: Cursed Daughters is nominated for Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Adult.
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- 1.Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans listed for $40,000 2019 Women's Prize for Literature. The Punch. May 2019.
- 2.O'Grady, Carrie. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest. The Guardian. 2019-01-04. 0261-3077.
- 3.Lea, Richard. Oyinkan Braithwaite's serial-killer thriller: would you help your murderer sister?. The Guardian. 2019-01-15. 0261-3077.
- 4.Braithwaite, Oyinkan. My Sister, the Serial Killer. Atlantic Books. 2019. 9781786495976.
- 5.Rayo, Adebola. Oyinkan Braithwaite On Waiting For A Dream. The Lady's Room. 2018-03-27.
- 6.BellaNaija.com. Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel 'My Sister, the Serial Killer' to be made into a Movie. BellaNaija. 2018-03-27.
- 7.Lea, Richard. Oyinkan Braithwaite: I just had high standards for myself. Gulf News. May 29, 2019.
- 8.O'Grady, Carrie. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest. The Guardian. 4 January 2019.
- 9.Braithwaite, Oyinkan. The Last Tattoo. McSweeney's. March 16, 2020.
- 10.Oyinkan Braithwaite's Treasure. The Fiction Addiction.
- 11.Peterson, Angeline. Check Out Oyinkan Braithwaite's Digital Illustration Instagram Page!. Brittle Paper. 25 February 2021.
- 12.Adebayo, Ayobami. Stuck with Them: An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite. LA Review of Books. January 11, 2019.
- 13.Puckett-Pope, Lauren. With Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite Makes a Deliberate Shift Away From Her Bestselling Debut. Elle. November 4, 2025.
- 14.An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite – The Reading Lists.
- 15.Oyinkan Braithwaite, a Kingston University graduate in Creative Writing and. AALBC.com.
- 16.Iwunze-Ibiam, Chioma. Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016 Shortlist. Creative Writing News. 2016-04-01.
- 17.Foundation, Commonwealth. 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Commonwealth Foundation. 2016-05-04.
- 18.Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced. Los Angeles Times. 2019-04-13.
- 19.Passmore, Lynsey. Revealing the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist. Women's Prize. 2019-04-28.
- 20.Quimby, Carolyn. Women's Prize for Fiction Names 2019 Shortlist. The Millions. 2019-04-29.
- 21.Wood, Heloise. Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie nominated for 2019 Booker Prize The Bookseller. www.thebookseller.com. July 24, 2019.
- 22.Mansfield, Katie. Braithwaite, Rankin and Wesolowski make Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards shortlist The Bookseller. www.thebookseller.com. 25 July 2019.
- 23.Toor, Mat. British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed The Bookseller. www.thebookseller.com. 20 March 2020.
- 24.Flood, Alison. Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards. The Guardian. 2020-06-30.
- 25.Harper, McKinty shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier crime award. Books+Publishing. 2020-06-15.
- 26.British Book Awards: Virginia Giuffre’s memoir wins top book prize. www.bbc.com. 2026-05-11.
- 27.Strangman, Alice. 2026 Ignyte Awards Finalists. Locus. 2026-06-08.
- 28.https://www.writingafrica.com/ignyte-awards-2026-finalists-announced/
- 29.Williams, S. Zainab. The Only Short Book You Need to Squeeze In at Year's End. BOOK RIOT. 2025-11-25.
- 30.Braithwaite, Oyinkan. 'Like seeing an old friend': Oyinkan Braithwaite on My Sister, the Serial Killer becoming a ballet. The Guardian. 2025-03-19.
- 31.Feeny, Madeleine. The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite review. The Standard. 2021-05-13.
- 32.Kan, Toni. "The Baby is Mine": King Solomon of the pandemic -Peju Akande. The Lagos Review. 2022-01-02.
- 33.Leu, Chelsea. Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite review – a family doomed in love. The Guardian. 2025-09-22.
- 34.Roach, Mattea. Oyinkan Braithwaite's new novel tests the power of free will against a generations-long curse. CBC. 2025-12-17.
- 35.Rascoe, Ayesha. Oyinkan Braithwaite discusses her novel 'Cursed Daughters'. NPR. 2025-11-02.
- 36.Nicol, Patricia. Oyinkan Braithwaite's new novel. The Times and The Sunday Times. 2025-09-27.
- 37.https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/karin-slaughter/twisted-womens-book-club.htm
- 38.The Perfect Crime: A Diverse Collection Of Gripping Crime Stories For 2022 From Bestselling Thriller Writers Including Oyinkan Braithwaite, Abir Mukherjee And Nadine Matheson - 9780008462369. LibroWorld.com.
- 39.McSweeney's Issue 59. The McSweeney’s Store.
- 40.https://www.amazon.in/Homeless-Bodies-and-Other-Stories/dp/B08DCRDVVQ
- 41.Homeless Bodies and Other Stories – Laura Purcell.
- 42.Fantastic Fiction. Treasure (Hush, book 2) by Oyinkan Braithwaite. www.fantasticfiction.com.
- 43.Meg. Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Treasure". The Fiction Addiction. 2022-10-30.
- 44.Chow-Quesada, Shun Man Emily. The Detectives Who Kill: Black Female Detectives in the Works of Oyinkan Braithwaite and Nnedi Okorafor. Clues: A Journal of Detection. 42. 2. 98–109. September 2024. 0742-4248.
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