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Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso
Yewande Omotoso's debut novel Bomboy won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize and was shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Her second novel, The Woman Next Door, was published in 2016. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Aidoo-Snyder Prize, the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, and the UJ Literary Prize. It was also longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Literature Prize.


The Epidemic of Thinking There’s Only One African Writer

Yewande Omotoso on the Inability to See Beyond Categories
February 22, 2019  By Yewande Omotoso
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