Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Charlotte Wicomb (23 November 1948 – 13 October 2025) was a South African author and academic.Neel Mukherjee, "Homing instinct: October by Zoë Wicomb", New Statesman, 26 June 2014. In 2013, she was awarded the first Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction. She was known for her 1987 work You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town. Wicomb was born in Western Cape, South Africa. 

Wicomb died on 13 October 2025 at a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 76.SA literary icon, Zoë Wicomb passes away at 77

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Other websites

 "Author details: Zoe Wicomb" , Scottish Book Trust.
 Bharati Mukherjee, "They Never Wanted To Be Themselves" (review), The New York Times, 24 May 1987."They Never Wanted To Be Themselves", The New York Times, 24 May 1987.
 "Fourteen New Short Stories from Zoë Wicomb: The One That Got Away" , Umuzi @ Sunday Times Books LIVE, 16 July 2008.

Category:1948 births
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Category:South African academics
Category:South African writers
Category:People from Cape Town
Category:Deaths from pulmonary embolism