Zoe Wicomb
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Zoe Wicomb (born 1948 in Namaqualand, South Africa) is an author. She gained attention in South Africa and internationally with her first novel, 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 novel, released in 2006, covers similar terrain conceptually, though this time set in contemporary South Africa and centering around a white woman who learns that her parents were actually coloured.
She attended and later taught at the University of the Western Cape.
Zoe Wicomb currently resides in Glasgow where she teaches creative writing and post-colonial literature at the University of Strathclyde.
