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Author: Yewande Omotoso
Yewande Omotoso trained as an architect and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel Bomboy (2011 Modjaji Books), won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Her short stories include “How About The Children” (Kalahari Review), “Things Are Hard” (2012 Caine Prize Anthology), “Fish” (The Moth Literary Journal), and “The Leftovers” (One World Two). Yewande was shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature and was a 2015 Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholar. Her second novel The Woman Next Door (2016 Chatto and Windus) was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Literature Prize. It was a finalist in the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction and has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Korean. Her third novel An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic) was published November 2021 (UK) and January 2022 (Africa).

15 December 202315 December 2023 Yewande OmotosoIn Issue 12: The Crossing

Unusual Griefs And Unusual Happinesses Literatea 09: Yewande Omotoso.

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