Yewande Omotoso

**Yewande Omotoso** (amụrụ ya na 1980) bụ onye na- ede akwụkwọ akụkọ sitere na South Africa, onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ na onye nrụpụta, onye amụrụ na Barbados ma tolite na Nigeria .  Ọ bụ ada onye odee Naijiria Kole Omotoso, na nwanne onye na-eme ihe nkiri Akin Omotoso .  O bi ugbu a na Johannesburg .  Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya abụọ ebipụtara enwetala nlebara anya ya nke ukwuu, gụnyere mmeri South Africa Literary Award for First Time Bipụtara,  ịbụ ndị edepụtara aha maka South African  Fiction Prize,  M-Net Literary Awards nke 2012,  5]  n'afọ 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature,  na ịbụ ogologo aha maka nke 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction . 

## Afọ mbụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Yewande Omotoso na Bridgetown, Barbados ;  na n'ime otu afọ nke ọmụmụ ya, ya na nne ya Barbadian, nna Nigeria na ụmụnne ya abụọ tọrọ na Nigeria. O tolitere na Ile-Ife, Osun State, ruo afọ 1992, mgbe ezinaụlọ ahụ kwagara South Africa   mgbe nna ya mechara oge agụmakwụkwọ na Mahadum Western Cape .  O kwuru, sị, “N'agbanyeghị afọ ole m biri na South Africa, m na-eche onwe m dị ka onye sitere na mba atọ: Barbados, Nigeria, na South Africa. Naijiria na-etolite akụkụ siri ike nke echiche m banyere onwe m, njirimara m",  na n'ajụjụ ọnụ 2015, o kwuru: "Identity dị mgbagwoju anya. Ọ na-amasị m ịbụ onye Naijiria, ọ na-amasị m ịbanye na njirimara ahụ ọ bụrụgodị na ihe m nwere dị mgbagwoju anya, n'ihi ọtụtụ njirimara m na ahụmahụ ndụ m na-akwaga." 

Ọ gụrụ ụkpụrụ ụlọ na Mahadum Cape Town (UCT), ma mgbe ọ rụchara ọrụ afọ ụfọdụ dị ka onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ gara n’ihu nweta nzere masta na okike ide n’otu mahadum ahụ. 

## Ọrụ ederede
Akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ nke Omotoso, *Bom Boy*, bụ nke Modjaji Books na Cape Town bipụtara n'afọ 2011. Ọ meriri 2012 South African Literary Award for First-time Bipute odee, e depụtara aha maka South African  Fiction Prize, na maka M-Net Literary Awards nke 2012.  *Bom Boy* bụkwa onye na-agba ọsọ maka 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature,  na-esote nke Omotoso weghaara 2014 Etisalat Fellowship na Mahadum East Anglia  nke nyere ya n'aha 2013 onye mmeri NoViolet Bulawayo . 

Omotoso bụbụ 2013 Norman Mailer Fellow wee bụrụ onye natara akwụkwọ mmụta Miles Morland n'afọ 2014.   

Dị ka *Bom Boy*, akwụkwọ akụkọ ya nke abụọ, *Nwanyị Na-esote Ụzọ* ( Chatto na Windus, 2016)  ka enyochakwara nke ọma, na ndị na- *ebipụta kwa izu* na-ezo aka na ya dị ka "akụkọ a mara mma, na-emetụ n'ahụ, mgbe ụfọdụ na-egbuke egbuke nke ndị octogenarian abụọ prickly: ụmụ nwanyị abụọ., otu nwa ojii na otu onye ọcha, ndị agbata obi na-achọpụta mgbe afọ iri abụo nke mgbanwe olulu na mkparị na ha nwere ike inyere ibe ha aka. . . Omotoso na-ewepụta mmekọrịta agbụrụ na-agbanwe agbanwe kemgbe afọ nke 1950s, yana ahụmịhe ndị mbịarambịa site na nkọwa nkeonwe na obere nghọta nke mmụọ n'ime mmetụta agwakọtara, anya onye na-ese ihe, na nchegharị nke nwanyị di ya nwụrụ. Nke ya bụ olu dị ọhụrụ dị ka onye maara nke ọma n'ịkwalite udo nke ije ije na kopje dị ka obi ọjọọ nke South Africa gara aga."  The *Irish Independent* kọwara *Nwanyị na-abịa n'ọnụ ụzọ* dị ka "akụkọ a hụrụ nke ọma nke ajọ mbunobi ụmụ nwanyị, mgbapụta na nke na-adịkarị mfe ngwa ahịa - ọbụbụenyi."  Edepụtara ya ogologo oge maka ihe nrite ụmụ nwanyị Bailey maka akụkọ ifo n'afọ 2017,   wee depụta aha ya maka onyinye nke afọ 2018 International Dublin Literary Award . 

Omotoso enyela akụkọ na uri n'akwụkwọ dị iche iche, n'etiti ha *Konch*, *Noir Nation*, Na- *ekwu okwu maka ọgbọ: Akụkọ nke oge a sitere na Africa*, Amụma *ụmụ nwanyị Africa nke oge a*,  *Kalahari Review*, *Akwụkwọ akụkọ Moth Literary*, *Otu Ụwa Abụọ*, 2012 Caine Ihe nrite anthology,  na *New Daughters of Africa* (2019), nke Margaret Busby deziri. 

Ọ na-esokarị na mmemme edemede gụnyere Aké Arts and Book Festival,  Edinburgh International Book Festival  na PEN American World Voices Festival. 

## Akwụkwọ akụkọ

* *Bom Boy*, Akwụkwọ Modjaji, 2011.  
* *Nwanyị Na-esote Ụzọ*, Chatto na Windus, 2016. 

## Edensibia

## Njikọ mpụga

* Tiah Beautement, "'N'ime akụkọ akụkọ m enwere m ihe ùgwù Micro.' Interview With Yewande Omotoso", Ụbọchị Akụkọ dị mkpirikpi Africa, 1 Juun 2016.
* Yewande Omotoso, "Ụdị ịhụnanya siri ike", Ihe omume ụmụ nwanyị dị ize ndụ, 20 Disemba 2016.
* "Ajụjụ Onye edemede | Yewande Omotoso", Bookish, 30 Jenụarị 2017.
* Ajụjụ ọnụ Omotoso, BBC, 19 Julaị 2016.
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