Awon iwe ere-onitan re mejeeji ti won ti te jade ti fun ni idanimo ti o to, ati pelu gbigba ami-eye South African Literary Award fun onkowe ti won te ise re jade fun igba akoko , ti o si je asayan fun South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize,,  M-Net Literary Awards 2012, ati 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature, ati ti o je yiyan fun 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.Ibere aye ati eko Won bi Yewande Omotoso ni Bridgetown, Barbados; ati laaarin odun kan ti won bi i ni oun ati iya re omo Barbados lo, baba re omo Naijiria ati awon egbon re okunrin meji si Naijiria.. 
Nigba ti o pari oye oye rẹ, o gba Ìkẹ́kọ̀ọ́ siwaju sii ni iṣakoso Iṣowo lati Ile-iwe Iṣowo ti Ipinle Eko.. 