Zoe Wicomb

Zoe Wicomb

Zoe Wicomb (born 1948 in Namaqualand, South Africa) is an author.

She 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 CapeShe 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" (2002), takes place in 1991 toward the close of the apartheid era and uses the ambiguous classification of coloureds to explore racial identity. "Playing in the Light", her third novel, released in 2006, covers similar terrain conceptually, though this time set in contemporary South Africa and centering around a white woman who learns that her parents were actually coloured.She published her second collection of short stories, "The One That Got Away". The stories, set mainly in Cape Town and Glasgow, explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendships, family ties or relations with servants.

Zoe Wicomb currently resides in Glasgow where she teaches creative writing and post-colonial literature at the University of Strathclyde.

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, 2002.
* "Playing in the Light", Umuzi, 2006.
* "The One That Got Away", Random House-Umuzi, 2008.

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D91F3AF937A15756C0A961948260 "They Never Wanted To Be Themselves" (review), New York Times, May 24, 1987]
* [http://randomhouse-umuzi.book.co.za/blog/2008/07/16/fourteen-new-short-stories-from-zoe-wicomb-the-one-that-got-away Random House-Umuzi]


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