Nigeria: Writer Helen Oyeyemi Wins Pen USA 2017 Open Book Award

23 February 2017

Helen Oyeyemi, the author of the globally acclaimed novel, "The Icarus Girl", has been declared winner of the PEN America OPEN BOOK Award 2017.

She won the prize for the category of the "Exceptional Book-Length Work of Literature By An Author of Color Published In 2016".

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