‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ Wins 2019 Anthony Award

Nigerian novelist, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister, the Serial Killer has been announced winner in the “Best First Novel” category at the Anthony Awards 2019 on November 2, 2019.

The Anthony Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher. He was a well-known California writer/critic who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times Book Review. The categories for the award includes Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Short Story, Best Critical / Non-fiction Work, and Special Service Award.

First presented in 1986 at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, the Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious and coveted literary awards in the mystery world. Previous winners include Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, and Stieg Larsson.

The shortlists for this year’s awards featured Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister, the Serial Killer. The novel by the Nigerian writer beat out four other entries and scooped the award in its category.

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel. It is about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Narative Landscape holds the Nigerian rights for the novel.