{"id":1727,"date":"2021-12-31T09:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/?page_id=1727"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:00:44","slug":"omotoso-yewande","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/omotoso-yewande\/","title":{"rendered":"Yewande Omotoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover pt-70 pb-70 pt-xs-50 pb-xs-50 rella-no-margin    content-section-69e68301e6fe5\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-12\">[vc_empty_space]<section  class=\"content-section full-width with-col cover rella-no-padding rella-no-margin    content-section-69e68301e73fd\"><div class=\"row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-1\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-3\"><div  class=\"full-block align-left\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Yewande.jpg\"  width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-6\"><h1  class=\" special-text  custom-font-properties-69e68301e7c2e\">Yewande Omotoso<\/h1><h2  class=\"section-title  mb-70 mb-sm-40 font-alt align-left\" >Advisory Board<\/h2><h2  class=\"section-title  mb-70 mb-sm-40 font-alt align-left\" >Academic Fellow<\/h2>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<div class=\"section-text text-block \" ><p><font color=\"#000000\"><b>Yewande Omotoso<\/b> was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. As a young girl she moved with her family and has since lived in South Africa &#8211; Cape Town and Johannesburg. Yewande trained as an architect at the University of Cape Town and completed an MA in Creative Writing from the same university. Her novels are Bom Boy (2011, Modjaji Books), which won the SA Literary Award First Time Author Prize; The Woman Next Door (2016, Chatto and Windus), shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Baileys Women\u2019s Literature Prize; and An Unusual Grief (2022, Cassava Republic). Her short stories include How About The Children (Kalahari Review) and Things Are Hard (2012 Caine Prize Anthology).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Omotoso, for whom writing is a means to make sense of the world, is particularly interested in the complexity of human experiences and emotions as well as the incongruities of life. Inspired by Arundhati Roy, herself a student of Architecture, Omotoso views writing as her Architectural practice \u2013 fiction as another form of contemplating and regarding ourselves in and around spaces and places. Omotoso teaches occasional Creative Writing workshops and works as a Storytelling Advisor for Greenpeace International.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column col-md-2\"><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Fellow + Advisory Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1728,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sea.ac.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}