Yewande omotoso biography samples

Yewande Omotoso needs no introduction to African fiction lovers.

Yewande trained as an architect at the University of Cape Town, to which she returned after working as an architect for several years, to.

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.

After finishing The Woman Next Door, I was struck by how you strive to write in opposition to the phrase, "Write what you know".

In your debut novel, Bom Boy, your main character was a young man who was adopted by white parents. Now, in your current story, we have two older women who have survived rather tricky marriages.

In this interview, Yewande Omotoso discusses her emigration from Nigeria to South Africa in the early s.

In this interview, Yewande Omotoso discusses her emigration from Nigeria to South Africa in the early s.

A special one-day writers' master class led by Yewande Omotoso with special guest Ama Ata Aidoo.

Yewande Omotoso trained as an architect and holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Cape Town.

This article studies Yewande Omotoso's debut novel, Bom Boy, as an exam- ple of the newly emerging body of migrant fiction in South Africa and.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the autobiography as an expression of the African-American woman in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

What attracts you to writing what you don't know?

YEWANDE:  I won’t say I set out to write what I don’t know. In fact a current struggle is that I can’t allow myself to write, as main characters, people whose first languages I don’t speak.

Since I only speak English with any competence it