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Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. She was born in Lagos and spent her childhood in both Nigeria and the UK. Life Braithwaite was born in Lagos 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 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 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 she illustrated the cover of the Nigerian edition of her novel, which was published by Narrative Landscape Publishers. 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 for 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, 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 Bibliography Novels My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) The Baby is Mine (2021) Collections of short stories The Driver (2010) Treasure (2020) References External links. Discover the Oyinkan Braithwaite popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Oyinkan Braithwaite books.