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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Book List in Order: 7 titles




  • In this searing novel -- praised by Toni Morrison as “seductive, brilliant, and precious” -- Zoë Wicomb chronicles a woman’s lifelong struggle with identity in apartheid-era South Africa. The daughter of “Coloured” parents in rural South A...



  • A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa’s M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as “a tremendous achievement.”   South Africa, 1991: Nelson Mandela is freed from prison, the African National Congress is now legal,...



  • “In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker).   Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Windham Campbell Prize winner Zo...



  • These short stories from the award-winning South African author “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth” (J. M. Coetzee).   Zoë Wicomb’s debut short story collection, You Can’t Get...



  • A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town -- “an extraordinary writer” (Toni Morrison).   Winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, Zoë Wicomb is a...



  • A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020A stunningly original new novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the Windham-Campbell lifetime achievement award winnerWhen Zoëml; Wicomb bur...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Zoe Wicomb has published 7 books.

Zoe Wicomb does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Still Life, was published in November 2020.

The first book by Zoe Wicomb, You Can't Get Lost in Capetown, was published in March 1987.

No. Zoe Wicomb does not write books in series.