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You鈥檙e invited to a special event with celebrated author Helen Oyeyemi, returning to AAU for a reading and conversation on the writing process and her most recent novel A New New Me (2025).

Oyeyemi is one of the most respected contemporary British novelists, known for blending folklore, myth, and fairy-tale traditions with modern psychological and literary fiction. She wrote her debut novel, The Icarus Girl (2005), while still in high school.

While studying sociology and political science at University of Cambridge, she also began writing plays, before ultimately focusing on prose fiction. Her second novel, The Opposite House (2007), draws heavily on Cuban mythology, while White Is for Witching (2009), a gothic narrative influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award. This was followed by Mr. Fox (2011).

In 2012, Oyeyemi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and, in 2013, she was named to Granta鈥檚 Best of Young British Novelists list. Her later works include Boy, Snow, Bird (2014), the short-story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (2016) which won the PEN Open Book Award, and the novels Gingerbread (2019) and Peaces (2021).

Published in February 2024, her eighth novel Parasol Against the Axe is her first to be set in the Czech Republic, where she has lived for more than a decade. Her most recent book, A New New Me (2025), also takes place here, reflecting her ongoing engagement with the country鈥檚 culture, language, and literary landscape.

Bring your questions and join us for a night of literature.