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Yewande Omotoso is a novelist, architect, and designer from Bridgetown, Barbados. She was born in 1980 and is currently 43 years old. She is best known for her debut novel, The Woman Next Door, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Omotoso studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and worked as an architect in South Africa before turning to writing. She has also worked as a designer and has designed furniture for the South African market. Omotoso's second novel, Bom Boy, was published in 2017 and was longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Her third novel, The House of Swallows, was published in 2020. Omotoso is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is married and has two children. As of 2021, Yewande Omotoso's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Birthplace Bridgetown, Barbados
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2019

Omotoso has contributed stories and poetry to various publications, among them Konch, Noir Nation, Speaking for the Generation: Contemporary Stories from Africa, Contemporary African Women’s Poetry, Kalahari Review, The Moth Literary Journal, One World Two, the 2012 Caine Prize anthology, and New Daughters of Africa (2019), edited by Margaret Busby.

2016

Like Bom Boy, her second novel, The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus, 2016) was also positively reviewed, with Publishers Weekly referring to it as "this charming, touching, occasionally radiant tale of two prickly octogenarians: two women, one black and one white, neighbors who discover after 20 years of exchanging digs and insults that they might help each other.... Omotoso captures the changing racial relations since the 1950s, as well as the immigrant experience through personal detail and small psychological insights into mixed emotions, the artist’s eye, and widow’s remorse. Hers is a fresh voice as adept at evoking the peace of walking up a kopje as the cruelty of South Africa’s past." The Irish Independent described The Woman Next Door as "a finely observed account of female prejudice, redemption and that often elusive commodity - friendship." It was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017, and shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.

2013

Omotoso was a 2013 Norman Mailer Fellow, and was the recipient of a Miles Morland Scholarship in 2014.

2011

Omotoso's debut novel, Bom Boy, was published in 2011 by Modjaji Books in Cape Town. It won the 2012 South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author, was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize, and for the M-Net Literary Awards 2012. Bom Boy was also runner-up for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature, following which Omotoso took up a 2014 Etisalat Fellowship at the University of East Anglia that was given up on her behalf by the 2013 prizewinner NoViolet Bulawayo.

1992

Yewande Omotoso was born in Bridgetown, Barbados; and within a year of her birth went with her Barbadian mother, Nigerian father and two older brothers to Nigeria. She grew up in Ile-Ife, Osun State, until 1992, when the family moved to South Africa after her father took an academic appointment with the University of the Western Cape. She has said, "Regardless of how many years I’ve lived in South Africa I think of myself as a product of three nations: Barbados, Nigeria, and South Africa. Nigeria forms a very strong part of my sense of myself, my identity", and in a 2015 interview, she said: "Identity is complex. I love being a Nigerian, I love belonging to that identity even if my belonging is complex, due to my multiple identities and migratory life experience."

1980

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