Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb ( born 1948 in Vanrhynsdorp, Namaqualand, South Africa) is a South African writer.

Life

Wicomb studied art in South Africa ( at the former College of Cape Coloured ) and England. In 1990, she returned for several years back in their country of birth and taught for 3 years at the University of the Western Cape. Notoriety they gained through their first release You Can not Get Lost in Cape Town ( 1987), a collection of short stories set in the apartheid era. Her novel David 's Story (2000 ) deals with the problematic classification of Coloureds. She now lives in Glasgow, where she teaches creative writing and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Strathclyde.

Works

  • You Can not Get Lost in Cape Town. Virago, London, 1987, ISBN 0-86068-819-4 German: Zoë Wicomb In Cape Town you can not get lost. Stories, translated by Karen Noelle Fischer, Lamuv, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88977-470-9
  • German: David's Story: A Novel of South Africa, translated by Hilde Schruff, Lamuv, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88977-614-0
  • The narrative contained therein in the Botanic Gardens is published in German as: Botanical Garden, translated by Susanne Koehler, in: poppies on black felt. Authors from four continents, Union Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-293-20108-3.
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