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'''Zoë Wicomb''' ([[Namaqualand]], 1948 |
'''Zoë Wicomb''' ([[Namaqualand]], November 23, 1948 in Namaqualand, South Africa is a [[South Africa]]n author . |
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Revision as of 16:27, 17 July 2014
Zoë Wicomb (Namaqualand, November 23, 1948 in Namaqualand, South Africa is a South African author .
Early life
Zoë Wicomb attended the University of the Western Cape, and after graduating left South Africa for England in 1970, where she continued her studies at Reading University. She lived in Nottingham and Glasgow and returned to South Africa in 1990, where she taught for three years in the department of English at the University of the Western Cape.[citation needed]
Career
She gained attention in South Africa and internationally with her first work, a collection of short stories, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), which takes place during the apartheid era. Her second novel, David's Story (2000), takes place in 1991 toward the close of the apartheid era and explores racial identity. Playing in the Light, her third novel, released in 2006, covers similar terrain conceptually. It is set in mid-1990s Cape Town and centers around the theme of racial passing. Her second collection of short stories, The One That Got Away, is set mainly in Cape Town and Glasgow and explores a range of human relationships: marriage, friendships, family ties and relations with servants.
Personal life
Zoë Wicomb resides in Glasgow, where she teaches creative writing and post-colonial literature at the University of Strathclyde.[citation needed]
Awards and honours
Bibliography
- You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, London, Virago, 1987, (published in South Africa for the first time by Umuzi in 2008).
- David’s Story, Kwela, 2000.
- Playing in the Light, Umuzi, 2006.
- The One That Got Away, Random House-Umuzi, 2008.
- October The New Press, 2014.
See also
References
- ^ Dorie Baker (March 4, 2013). "Yale awards $1.35 million to nine writers". YaleNews. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
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