I definitely feel a kind of responsibility to the reader now that wasn’t there before.Ĭlick here to read the rest of her answers. There is a kind of freedom you have when no one knows who you are, and no one cares what you write. How did publishing your book change your relationship with writing? In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She was spunky, intelligent and had a fierce temper. Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Translated into four languages and available on Amazon and Audible, Guardian Life asks Oyinkan Braithwaite 16 questions about what she calls her greatest accomplishment yet.Īnn with an ‘e’ from Anne of Green Gables. Written in only four weeks, Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister the Serial Killer which focuses on two sisters bound by a murderous secret has met global acclaim, being praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire and other authors like Ayobami Adebayo and Edgar Cantero. Oyinkan’s personality is as sharp and precise as her serial killer character’s decorative knife, with a lilt of humour so sudden it feels like whiplash in person, but hilarious on paper. While several writers were still fleshing out ideas, writing tentative opening sentences and deciding characters’ names, Oyinkan Braithwaite, 32-year-old assistant manager at Kachifo Publishers, was writing the final words of her international bestseller My Sister the Serial Killer.
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