Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb (born November 23, 1948 in Vanrhynsdorp , Namaqualand , Republic of South Africa ) is a South African writer.

Life

Wicomb studied art in South Africa (at what was then the College for Cape Colored ) and England. In 1990 she returned to her native country for a few years and taught at the University of the Western Cape for 3 years . She gained fame with her first publication You Can't 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 coloreds . She now lives in Glasgow where she studied creative writing and postcolonial literature at the University of Strathclyde informed.

Zoë Wicomb was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Works

• You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town. Virago, London 1987, ISBN 0-86068-819-4
  • German: Zoë Wicomb You can't get lost in Cape Town. Stories , translated by Karen Nölle-Fischer, Lamuv, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88977-470-9
• David's story. Kwela, 2000.
  • German: David's story: novel from South Africa , translated by Hilde Schruff, Lamuv, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88977-614-0
• Playing in the light. Umuzi, 2006.
• The One That Got Away. , Collection of short stories, Random House-Umuzi, 2008.
  • the story contained therein, In the Botanic Gardens , was published in German translation as: In the botanical garden , translated by Susanne Koehler, in: Mohnblumen auf Black Filz. Women authors from four continents , Unionsverlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-293-20108-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zoë Wicomb You cannot get lost in Cape Town. stories
2. ↑ Short biography in Poppies on Black Filz , 1998, p. 55

Web links

• Literature by and about Zoë Wicomb in the catalog of the German National Library