Still Life: A Novel

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Media track record: Wicomb's novels have received acclaim from The New Yorker, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal, as well as writers like Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, Louise Welsh, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Platform: In South Africa and in the field of contemporary literature, post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial studies, her essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on a wide range of cultural and political topics, including gender politics, sexuality, race, identity, nationalism, and visual art, are renowned.

Speaking: Wicomb lectures all over the world, especially in Britain and South Africa.

Blurbs/endorsements: Damon Galgut, Romesh Gunesekera, Jeannette Winterson , Kamilla Shamsie

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Praise for Still Life:
"Timely and thought-provoking, Still Life is a novel about the complexities of human compassion and the impermanence of legacies."
Foreword Reviews

"A virtuosic metafictional biography. . . . Wicomb's experiment succeeds by exploring the question of who gets to write history."
Publishers Weekly

An intriguingly metatextual novel that addresses some of the silences and omissions of South African history, and the broader relationship of historiography, reputation, writing and memory to power.
Simon Lewis, The Post and Courier

Author Bio

Zoml; Wicomb is a South African writer living in Glasgow, Scotland, where she is emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of October, The One That Got Away, Playing in the Light and David's Story. She was an inaugural winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize in fiction.