Yewande Omotoso
Yewande trained as an architect and holds a masters in Creative Writing. Her debut novel Bomboy, won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Yewande was shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature and was a 2015 Miles Morland Scholar. Her second novel The Woman Next Door was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Literature Prize.
South Africa/Nigeria
Two fiercely independent octogenarians, Hortensia (a Black textile designer) and Marion (a white architect), have spent years locked in mutual loathing across a hedge in post-apartheid Cape Town. An accident forces them to bridge the gap, peeling back layers of prejudice, bitterness, and loss to discover unexpected kinship.