Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Bridgetown, Barbados
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Occupation(s)Novelist, architect and designer
Notable workBom Boy (2011)
The Woman Next Door (2016)
FatherKole Omotoso
RelativesAkin Omotoso (brother)
Websitewww.yewandeomotoso.com

Yewande Omotoso (born 1980) is a South African-based novelist, architect and designer, who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria.[1] She currently lives in Johannesburg.[2] Her two published novels have earned her considerable attention, including winning the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author,[3] being shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize,[4] the M-Net Literary Awards 2012,[5] and the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature,[6] and being longlisted for the 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.[7] She is the daughter of Nigerian writer Kole Omotoso, and the sister of filmmaker Akin Omotoso.[8]

  1. ^ Yewande Omotoso biography at African Books Collective.
  2. ^ "Your Favorite Writers are Mentoring! | Yewande Omotoso", Writivism, 30 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Yewande Omotoso". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  4. ^ Vanguard, The Patriotic (23 April 2020). "Nigerian writer Yewande Omotoso". The Patriotic Vanguard. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Yewande Omotoso", This is Africa.
  6. ^ "Etisalat Prize for Literature: Again, Nigeria's young writers miss laurel". Guardian Nigeria. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Announcing the 2017 Longlist...", Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
  8. ^ Shanaaz Prince, "Akin Omotoso: From actor to filmmaker", PressReader, 23 February 2017.