E-mail us a comment on this writer. (Comments may be edited and used on this website.) About the Author Zoë Wicomb was born in Namaqualand in what was then the Cape Province. Her first book, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, gained her an international reputation on its first publication in the US and in the UK. It is published in South Africa for the first time in 2008. David’s Story (1987) was given the 2002 M-Net Literary Award. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, French, Italian and German. She has also written short stories published in numerous anthologies, as well as critical articles on South African writing and Postcolonial theory and writing. She now lives in Glasgow where she is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Strathclyde University. She is also Visiting Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University. Zoë Wicomb’s published work includes    •   You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, Virago Press, London and Pantheon Books, New York, 1987 (first publication) & Umuzi, Cape Town, 2008    •   David's Story, Kwela Books, Cape Town & The Feminist Press, New York, 2002    •   Playing in the Light, Umuzi, 2006    •   The One That Got Away, Umuzi, 2008 home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za