Award-winning British author Helen Oyeyemi in conversation with Thomas Meaney, Editor of Granta Magazine
To open our British Council Literature Seminar 2024 we are excited to announce that our chair, Helen Oyeyemi, will read from her work and speak in conversation with Thomas Meaney, Granta Magazine's Editor.
Helen Oyeyemi’s eleven books include What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread and Parasol Against the Axe. She’s a recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and PEN’s Open Book Award, and her novel Peaces was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. She was a member of the judging panels for Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023, the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, the 2015 Giller Prize and the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Award, and has reviewed fiction for The New Statesman, the Guardian, and the New York Times.
Read more about Helen Oyeyemi and the other participating writers at our Literature Seminar here.
This event is free of charge and open to all, and will be followed by a wine reception in Colonia Nova.
No ticket is required to attend this event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Location: Colonia Nova, Thiemannstraße 1/Tor 4, 12059 Berlin.