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Zoë Wicomb

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in Namaqualand, South Africa

November 23, 1948

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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 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 (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 no ...more

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	Playing in the Light 3.57 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town by Zoë Wicomb, Carol Sicherman (Afterword) 3.55 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1987 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	David's Story by Zoë Wicomb, Dorothy Driver (Afterword) 3.37 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	October 3.39 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Life 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One That Got Away 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doce relatos urbanos, doce voces africanas by Zoë Wicomb, Véronique Tadjo, Trifonia Melibea Obono 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miradas. Cuentos Sudafricanos by Zoë Wicomb, Ivan Vladislavić 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Train Comes it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art Work by Zoë Wicomb, Janice Acquah (Narrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Aesthetics, he said, should be left to the so-called artists, to the writers and readers of fiction. There is no need to fret about writing, about our choice of words in the New South Africa; rather, we will have to make do with mixtures of meaning, will have to rely on typographic devices like the slash for many more years, he predicted.”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

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“Like picnics—only when you’re sure of a good roof over your head would you even think of eating out of doors, of making a song and dance about eating under a tree.”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

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“It’s ridiculous going around looking for Griqua history and traditions when you know that they’re just ordinary coloured people like everyone else, just ordinary gullible people who fell for the nonsense of that madman Le Fleur. Ugh, Sally snorts, the things that pass”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

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What should be our April 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (Africa)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)

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The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (South Africa)

10 votes 13.7%

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)

9 votes 12.3%

City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson (Kenya)

8 votes 11.0%

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi (Morocco)

7 votes 9.6%

October by Zoë Wicomb (South Africa)

5 votes 6.8%

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)

4 votes 5.5%

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Rwanda)

4 votes 5.5%

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie J. Davis (Uganda)

3 votes 4.1%

Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ (Senegal)

3 votes 4.1%

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

2 votes 2.7%

Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (Sudan)

1 vote 1.4%

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