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Early Life & Education
Yewande Omotoso was born in Bridgetown, the capital city of Barbados in North America, to the family of Professor Kole Omotoso. Shortly after her birth, her family migrated back to Nigeria, where she grew up.
She moved back to South Africa with her father in 1992. She went to the University of Cape Town, where she studied architecture. Yewande went further to obtain a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at the same university.
Career
In 2011, Yewande Omotoso wrote her debut novel, titled Bom Boy.
The novel gained wide attention and later won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author in 2012.
Yewande omotoso biography of william shakespeare
Also in that same year, Bom Boy was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize and for the M-Net Literary Awards. The novel came as a runner-up in the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature.
In 2016, Yewande published her second novel, titled The Woman Next Door.
This novel again gained wide attention