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  1. Yewande Omotoso (born 1980) is a South African -based novelist, architect and designer, who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. [1] She currently lives in Johannesburg. [2]

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  3. Yewande Omotoso trained as an architect and holds a masters 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.

  4. Apr 7, 2022 · Yewande Omotoso is an author, architect and designer, who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. She is the author of three novels, ‘Bom Boy’, ‘The Woman Next Door’ and ‘An Unusual...

  5. The Woman Next Door is a 2016 novel written by Yewande Omotoso. It is Omotoso's second novel, and her first to be published in the US. The story focuses on two elderly widows in Cape Town, one black and one white, who begin as acrimonious neighbors but come to know each other better after an accident.

  6. Jul 3, 2017 · Yewande Omotoso Chatto & Windus, 2017. Yewande Omotoso spoke to Johannesburg Review of Books editor Jennifer Malec recently about writing unlikeable characters, the necessity for discomfort in art, and her most recent novel, The Woman Next Door.

  7. May 5, 2016 · The Woman Next Door is a cornucopia of elderly woman, replete with age-defying beauty regimens, gossip, and irascible attitudes. Old women, with their wigs, their painted nails, their lipsticks seeping down whistle lines; scared and old rich white women pretending in the larger scheme of life, that they were important.

  8. Jun 1, 2016 · Yewande Omotoso needs no introduction to African fiction lovers. Her debut novel, Bom Boy, was highly acclaimed, and her second highly anticipated novel, The Woman Next Door, has recently been published. Here she shares some of her measured and astute observations.

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