Zoë Wicomb was born in 1948 and raised in Namaqualand, South Africa. After 20 years of voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. The author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, Wicomb was one of the first recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes in 2013.
11 Ebooks tarafından Zoe Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town
In this searing novel—praised by Toni Morrison as “seductive, brilliant, and precious”—Zoë Wicomb chronicles a woman’s lifelong struggle with identity in apartheid-era South Africa. The daughter of “ …
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Wicomb Zoe Wicomb: Race, Nation, Translation
The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Af …
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€38.53
Zoë Wicomb: Still Life
A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020 A stunningly original new novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the Windham-Campbell life …
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€25.99
Zoe Wicomb: David’s Story
A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa’s M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as “a tremendous achievement.” South Africa, 1991: Nelson Mandela is …
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€21.74
Zoe Wicomb: Playing in the Light
“In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker). Set in a bea …
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€19.28
Zoe Wicomb: One That Got Away
These short stories from the award-winning South African author ‘;combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth’ (J.M. Coetzee). Zo Wicomb’s debut short stor …
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€21.84
Zoe Wicomb: October
A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town—“an extraordinary writer” (Toni Morrison). …
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€26.95
Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon: Surfacing
An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today’s scholars and radical thinkers Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first co …
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€28.99
Yvette Abrahams & Gabeba Baderoon: Surfacing
What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence …
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€19.33
Zoe Wicomb: Still Life
Few in his native Scotland know about Thomas Pringle – the abolitionist, publisher, and – some would say – Father of South African Poetry. A biography of Pringle is in order, and a reluctant writer t …
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€14.12
Zoe Wicomb: Still Life
Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. In her effor …
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