I'm Always More Interested in the Shadow than the Light: An Interview with Yewande Omotoso.

OMOTOSO, Yewande; BOM Boy (Book); WOMAN Next Door, The (Book); SOUTH African fiction; FICTION writing; NOVELISTS

An interview with novelist Yewande Omotoso is presented. Omotoso discusses the shortlisting of his novel "Bom Boy" for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature and wnning the South African Literary Award, his 2017 novel "The Woman Next Door," a story of hatred between two octogenarian neighbors, and how Cape Town, South Africa informed his writing.