Zoë Wicomb’s passing, on October 13 at the age of 76, has prompted an outpouring of tributes from black women writers and scholars across the globe, a reflection of the immense political and literary ...

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath. Zoë Wicomb in 2010. “She explored in one book after another the ...

Wicomb will be remembered as one of South Africa’s boldest and most innovative writers. Roger Palmer Zoë Wicomb’s first book, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), is a tour through episodes in the ...

When Zoë Wicomb arrived in Britain at the age of 22 in 1970, just off the SS Southern Cross from Cape Town, the first thing she did was make her way to Carnaby Street where she bought herself a big ...

Celebrated South African author Zoë Wicomb has died at 76 in Glasgow, Scotland. Wicomb was known for her powerful stories on identity and South African life, including You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town.

In December 2014, the first Literary Activism symposium was held in Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Conceptualised by the writer Amit Chaudhuri, this series of interventions into the literary culture ...

South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories Although she lived in Glasgow for 40 years, Zoë Wicomb, who has died aged 76, ...

Zoë Wicomb, a celebrated South African-Scottish writer and scholar, has died. All my memories of her crystallise around her voice: it brought a small piece of South Africa into whatever context she ...

« Octobre » de Zoë Wicomb paraîtra le 10 septembre. Il fait partie des livres attendus d’une rentrée littéraire riche en œuvres africaines. Octobre, de Zoë Wicomb, traduction d’Edith Soonckindt, éd.

“Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left.” So opens Zoë Wicomb’s latest novel, October (The New Press). In a different kind of post-breakup tale, Mercia would cry over a carton ...

Wicomb was born in the Western Cape in 1948 and grew up in a small town in Namaqualand. She has said that as a child there was very little reading material at her home except for the Children’s Bible, ...