Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted son, was of interest from … - Zoë Wicomb

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Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted son, was of interest from the outset. Not only is his story recorded in a poem, but I wanted to explore the question of interracial adoption under colonial conditions as well as what that story looks like from Hinza’s point of view.

Zoë Wicomb

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About Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb (23 November 1948 – October 2025) was a South African-Scottish author and academic who has lived in the UK since the 1970s. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction.

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Alternative Names: Zoe Wicomb • Zoe Charlotte Wicomb • Zoë Charlotte Wicomb

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I have a ghost existence here: my whole intellectual and emotional life is in South Africa.

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After several false starts, self-reflexivity offered a solution –– I decided to exploit my inability to write, to fictionalise the writer herself, and to make the actual writing of Pringle’s history the framework of the novel.

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