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is an architect, with a masters 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). Omotoso was a 2015 Miles Morland 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. Her third novel An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic) was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
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is an architect, with a masters 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). Omotoso was a 2015 Miles Morland 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. Her third novel An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic) was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
YEWANDE OMOTOSO
JUNE 16 2023
YEWANDE OMOTOSO•JUNE 16 2023
Nigerian novelist, Yewande Omotoso’s most recent novel, An Unusual Grief, was inspired by her experience of loss: ‘My mother died when I was 23, and apart from the recent birth of my children, that is the most profound experience of my life. The grief that followed is a sharp memory of mine and I’ve often joked that the experience irrevocably marked my writing.’