Her debut novel ‘Bomboy’ (Modjaji Books, 2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Yewande was a 2013 Norman Mailer Fellow and a 2014 Etisalat Fellow. She was a 2015 Miles Morland Scholar. ‘The Woman Next Door’ (Chatto and Windus, 2016) is Yewande’s second novel, which will be launched in the UK at Africa Writes – Saturday 2 July 2016, 13:30 – 14:00.