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Yewande Omotoso
South African-based novelist (born )
Yewande Omotoso (born ) 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] Her two published novels have earned her considerable attention, including winning the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author,[3] being shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize,[4] the M-Net Literary Awards ,[5] and the Etisalat Prize for Literature,[6] and being longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.[7] She is the daughter of Nigerian writer Kole Omotoso, and the sister of filmmaker Akin Omotoso.[8]
Early years and education
Yewande Omotoso was born in Bridgetown, Barbados;[9] and within a year of her birth went with her Barbadian mother, Nigerian father and two older brothers to Nigeria.
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