Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb | |
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| Born | Zoë Charlotte Wicomb 23 November 1948 Beeswater, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Died | 13 October 2025 (aged 76) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Alma mater | University of the Western Cape; Reading University |
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| Notable work | You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town |
| Awards | M-Net Prize (2001) Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2013) |
Zoë Charlotte Wicomb (23 November 1948 – 13 October 2025) was a South African author and academic who lived in the United Kingdom from the 1970s until her death. Her 1987 debut book, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town – a collection of inter-related short stories, set during the Apartheid era and partly autobiographical – received wide praise, and in 2000 was described by Toni Morrison as "seductive, brilliant and precious".
In 2013, Wicomb was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction.