Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados, grew up in Nigeria and moved to South Africa with her family in 1992. Trained as an architect, she has also worked as a designer and writer. Her debut novel, “Bom Boy,” received the South African Literary Award for First Time Author and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Her second novel, “The Woman Next Door,” was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.