Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb (alizaliwa 23 Novemba 1948) ni mwandishi na mtaalamu wa fasihi nchini Afrika Kusini-Scottish ambaye ameishi nchini Uingereza tangu mwaka 1970.Neel Mukherjee, "Homing instinct: October by Zoë Wicomb", New Statesman, 26 June 2014. Mwaka 2013 alitunukiwa tuzo ya Nobel kwa kazi yake ya fasihi.
Maisha ya Awali
Zoë Wicomb alizaliwa karibu na Vanrhynsdorp, Rasi ya Magharibi, nchini Afrika Kusini. Alikulia katika mji mdogo wa Namaqualand, alikwenda Cape Town kusoma shule ya sekondari, na alisoma Chuo Kikuu cha Western Cape (ambacho kilianzishwa mwaka 1960 kama chuo kikuu cha "Coloreds")."UWC History", University of the Western Cape."Zoe Wicomb A Writer Of Rare Brilliance". Interview by David Robinson for The Scotsman, 2000; via Intermix.

Baada ya kuhitimu, alihama Afrika Kusini mwaka wa 1970 na kwenda Uingereza, ambako aliendelea na masomo yake katika Chuo Kikuu cha Reading. Aliishi huko Nottingham na Glasgow na kurudi Afrika Kusini mwaka 1990, ambapo alifundisha kwa miaka mitatu katika idara ya Kiingereza katika Chuo Kikuu cha Western Cape. 

Mwaka 1994, alihamia Glasgow, Uskoti, ambapo alikuwa Profesa wa Uandishi na Ubunifu katika Chuo Kikuu cha Strathclyde hadi kustaafu kwake mwaka 2009. Alikuwa Profesa  katika Chuo Kikuu cha Stellenbosch tangu mwaka wa 2005 hadi 2011. Pia ni profesa mstaafu wa chuo kikuu cha Strathclyde.
Viungo vya Nje
 "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.
 Journal of Southern African Studies, 36.3 (2010). Special Issue: Zoe Wicomb: Texts and Histories.
 Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 12.3-4 (2011). Special Issue: Zoë Wicomb, the Cape & the Cosmopolitan.
 Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 23.2 (2011).
 "Zoe Wicomb A Writer Of Rare Brilliance", Intermix.
 "‘Intersectionality seems so blindingly obvious a notion’—Zoë Wicomb in conversation with Andrew van der Vlies, from their new book Race, Nation, Translation", The Johannesburg Review of Books, Conversation Issue, 14 January 2019.

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