His position in the book-trade is well revered and he has served on the boards of numerous arts and literary non-profits and well as participating in national bookseller discussions affecting the trade. ‍ Paul Yamazaki has served as the chief book buyer at City Lights Booksellers for over 40 years. She is the author of the celebrated novel My Sister, the Serial Killer, published by Doubleday Book.

In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. But the ayoola is killed her boyfriend on every date. Korner and Ayoola they both are living in Nigeria along with parents. She now works as a freelance writer and editor. Download FileMy sister the serial killer is the story of two sisters who have a great friendship. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo Limited, a Nigerian publishing house, and as a production manager at Ajapaworld, a children’s educational and entertainment company. ‍ Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Kingston University in Creative Writing and Law. Oyinkan Braithwaite will be in conversation with Paul Yamazaki. 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.‍An afternoon conversation and book signing with Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer.

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? She was spunky, intelligent and had a fierce temper. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 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. Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. 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.