Zoë Wicomb

(born November 1948 - ) - Glasgow

Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb was born in South Africa in 1948. She has lived in Scotland for nearly twenty years and teaches creative writing at the University of Strathclyde. Wicomb has written three novels, all set in South Africa and all dealing with questions of race and identity. Her latest, Playing in the Light, deals with the issue of play-whites, a mixed-race section of South African society who, faced with tortuous definitions of what constituted ‘white’ and ‘coloured’ in the apartheid era, pretended to be white so as to accede to the privileges accorded to that section.

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    Set in 1990s Cape Town, this novel revolves around Marion, a woman of Afrikaner background, who hates travelling but nonetheless runs a travel agency, and her complex relationship with Brenda, the first black woman she has ever employed.

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