Screenwriter, Novelist

Zoë Laband is an award-winning South African writer and screenwriter. At 16 she won the prestigious National Alan Paton poetry competition and at 17 she read her poetry at the international poetry TIME OF THE WRITER festival alongside poet and activist LKJ. After winning scholarships to UCT, where she majored in Theory of Literature and History, and then AFDA film school where her graduation film PINKY PINKY won best film and best director, she went on to win a Graduate Fellowship for Academic Distinction at York University, Toronto, Canada, where she obtained her Masters in Screenwriting, Cum Laude. For the past decade Zoë has been writing for the screen. With more than 20 screen credits, most notably two romantic-comedy features for Netflix, a romantic-comedy feature and a medical procedural series for Showmax, she has been in the story-room trenches for years, honing the art of storytelling. Zoë has a passion for comedic female-led stories; GINGER GOES SOUTH is her first novel. This standalone is the first in a planned trilogy.