Yewande Omotoso

**Yewande Omotoso** (an haife ta a shekarar 1980) yar Afirka ta Kudu ce wacce take yin rubuce rubuce na asali, kuma ta kasance mai tsara gini ta hanyar yin zane zane,  waccce aka haifa a Barbados kuma ta girma a Nijeriya .  Ita marubuciya ce yar Najeriya, yar Kole Omotoso, kuma' yar'uwar yar wasan fim na Omotoso .  A yanzu haka tana zaune ne a Johannesburg .  Littattafan nata biyu da aka wallafa sun ba ta babban kulawa, ciki har da lashe lambar yabo ta Adabin Afirka ta Kudu don Marubucin da aka Buga a Farko,  da kuma kyautar Etisalat ta 2013 na Adabi,  kuma ana cikin wadanda aka zaba domin samun kyautar Bailey ta mata ta almara a shekarar 2017. 

## Shekarun farko da ilimi
Yewande Omotoso an haife shi ne a Bridgetown, Barbados ;  kuma a cikin shekara guda da haihuwarta ta tafi tare da mahaifiyarta Ba-barbiya, mahaifin Najeriyar da yayanta maza biyu zuwa Nijeriya. Ta girma a Ile-Ife, Jihar Osun, har zuwa 1992, lokacin da dangin suka koma Afirka ta Kudu   bayan mahaifinta ya dauki alkawarin ilimi tare da Jami'ar Western Cape. Ta ce, "Ba tare da la'akari da yawan shekarun da na yi a Afirka ta Kudu ba, ina tunanin kaina a matsayin samfuran kasashe uku: Barbados, Najeriya, da Afirka ta Kudu. Najeriya ta kasance wani bangare mai matukar karfi na fahimtar kaina, na ainihi ",  kuma a cikin hirar da aka yi da ita a shekarar 2015, ta ce:" Takaddama tana da rikitarwa. Ina son kasancewa dan Najeriya, ina son kasancewa cikin wannan asalin koda kuwa na kasance hadadden abu ne, saboda yawan sanin da nayi da kuma kwarewar rayuwa. " 

Ta yi karatun gine-gine a Jami'ar Cape Town (UCT), kuma bayan ta yi aiki na wasu shekaru a matsayin mai zanen gine-ginen ta ci gaba da samun digiri na biyu a kan Rubutun Halitta a wannan jami'ar. 

## Rubuta aiki
Littafin farko na Omotoso, *Bom Boy*, an buga shi a cikin 2011 ta Littattafan Modjaji a Cape Town. Ya ci lambar yabo ta wallafe-wallafen Afirka ta Kudu ta 2012 don Marubucin da aka Buga a karon Farko, aka zaba don Afirka ta Kudu  Fiction Prize Prize, da kuma M-Net Literary Awards 2012.  *Bom Boy* shi ma ya zo na biyu a kyautar Etisalat ta Adabi a shekarar 2013,  wanda Omotoso ya dauki 2014 Etisalat Fellowship a Jami'ar East Anglia  wanda aka ba ta a madadin ta wanda ya samu kyautar 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo . 

Omotoso ya kasance dan'uwqn Norman Mailer Fellow na 2013, kuma ya kasance mai karɓar Males Morland Scholarship a 2014.   

Kamar *Bom Boy*, littafinta na biyu, *The Woman Next Door* ( Chatto and Windus, 2016)an kuma sake duba su da kyau, tare da *Masu Bugawa a Mako-mako* suna ambaton shi a matsayin "wannan kyakkyawar kyakkyawar magana, mai tabawa, wani lokaci mai haskakawa game da wasu oan uwa biyu masu lalata: mata biyu., baƙi ɗaya fari daya, makwabta wadanda suka gano bayan shekaru 20 suna musayar makarkashiya da zagi cewa za su iya taimakon jua, motoso ya kama canjin yanayin launin fata tun daga shekarun 1950, gami da kwarewar baki ta hanyar bayanan sirri da kananan fahimtar halayyar mutum cikin dimbin motsin rai, idanun mai zane, da kuma nadamar bazawara. Muryarta wata sabuwar murya ce wacce take da kwarjini wajen neman zaman lafiya na tafiya kopje kamar zaluncin da ya faru a Afirka ta Kudu a baya. ”  Jaridar *Independent ta Irish ta* bayyana *The Woman Next Door* a matsayin "ingantaccen bayanin asusun nuna wariya na mata, fansa da galibi abin da ke haifar da kayayyaki - abota."  An jera shi ne don kyautar Bailey ta Mata don Almara a shekarar 2017,kuma an zaba ta don lambar yabo ta Adabin Dublin ta Duniya ta 2018. 

Omotoso ya ba da gudummawar labarai da shayari ga wallafe-wallafe iri-iri, daga cikinsu *Konch*, *Noir Nation*, yana *magana ne game da Zamanin: Labaran Zamani daga Afirka*, *Wakokin Matan Afirka na Zamani*,  *Kalahari Review*, *The asu Literary Journal*, *World One Biyu*, the 2012 Caine Lissafin girmamawa,  da *Sabbin 'Ya'yan Afirka* (2019), wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya . 

Ta kasance mai yawan halarta a cikin bikin adabi wanda ya hada da bikin Aké Arts da Book Festival,  da Edinburgh International Book Festival  da kuma PEN American World Voices Festival. 

Omotoso sanannu ne a cikin wasu yankuna don amfani da kimiyyar emojis kamar kyakkyawan suna mai juju mask. 

## Bibiliyo

* *Bom Boy*, Littattafan Modjaji, 2011.  
* *Mace Mai Kofar Gaba*, Chatto da Windus, 2016. 

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗin waje

* Kyawun Tiah, "'A cikin Labarina Na Gata Da Micro.'  Ganawa Tare Da Yewande Omotoso " , Ranar Gajeren  Labari Na Afirka, 1 Yuni 2016.
* Yewande Omotoso, " Seraunar Mai Girma", Tsarin Mata Masu Hadari, 20 Disamba 2016.
* "Tattaunawar Marubuci | Yewande Omotoso", Bookish, 30 Janairu 2017.
* Ganawa tare da Omotoso, BBC, 19 ga Yulin 2016.