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Zoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76

著名南非作家佐伊·维科姆去世,享年76岁

Zoë Wicomb in 2010. “She explored in one book after another the modalities of South African experience, in language whose wit and irony masked a deep seriousness,” the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee observed.

Zoë Wicomb in 2010. “She explored in one book after another the modalities of South African experience, in language whose wit and irony masked a deep seriousness,” the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee observed.

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Ms. Wicomb (pronounced WICK-um) grew up in a desert-like region of arid scrubland, within a country that enforced racial discrimination through law and terror. She left South Africa in 1970, she said, to put “the whole oppressiveness” she’d felt far behind her, and settled in Britain. She taught secondary school before embarking on an acclaimed literary career in her 30s.

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