Zoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76
In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
The author Wole Soyinka, a vocal critic of President Trump, told the Nigerian press he did not attend a visa renewal interview requested by the State Department.
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked.
Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.
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One sector that almost all publishers in Africa say is all of a sudden rising is youngsters’s books. Lola Shoneyin, a novelist and the writer of Ouida Books in Nigeria,…
This text is a part of Overpassed, a form of obituaries about important public whose deaths, starting in 1851, went unreported in The Occasions. In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made…
Charles Onana and his writer had been fined for passages in a store that had been discovered to have violated a French legislation making it unlawful to disclaim an formally…
She was a literary famous person in Senegal with novels that addressed girls’s problems as the rustic, newly independent from French colonial rule, was once finding its identification.
But up to O’Neill attracts from fresh era in his fantasy, he sees a difference between his novels and decrease tales and his essays. His books “are inevitably political, too,…