US EditionZoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76
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GH HeadlinesZoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76
Zoë Wicomb, an award-winning South African author who wrote from self-exile in Scotland and drew global praise for fiction that rendered with nuance and wit the life of mixed-race people like herself during and after apartheid, died on Oct. 13 in Glasgow. She was 76. The death, at a hospital, was caused by a pulmonary embolism, said her husband, Roger Palmer. Ms. Wicomb (WICK-um) grew up in a desert-like region of arid scrubland, within a countr…
South African literature has lost one of its sharpest and most reflective feathers. Zoë Wicomb, the author and scholar who ironically and thoroughly woven the complexities of racial identity, exile and the legacy of apartheid, died at the age of 76. Wicomb grew up in the heart of the apartheid regime, which was formalized only months after her arrival in the world. She emigrated to England at the age of 21, fleeing the restrictions of apartheid.…
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