Rose Zwi
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Rose Zwi (born 8 May 1928) is a South African writer best known for her work about the immigrants in that country. Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, to Jewish refugees from Lithuania, her family moved to South Africa when she was a young girl. In 1967 Zwi graduated from the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) with a BA (Hons) in English Literature.[1]
Zwi lived briefly in Israel, but returned to South Africa until 1988 when she relocated to Australia. She became an Australian citizen in 1992 and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales.
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[edit] Awards
- 1982 - Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize for Another Year in Africa - a prize for new and emerging writers.[2]
- 1994 - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Fiction Award for Safe Houses[3]
[edit] Works
- Another Year in Africa (Bateleur Press, c1980)
- The Inverted Pyramid : a Novel (Ravan Press, 1981)
- Exiles: A Novel (AD. Donker, 1984)
- The Umbrella Tree (Penguin, 1990)
- Safe Houses (Spinifex, 1993)
- Last Walk in Naryshkin Park (Spinifex Press, 1997)Spinifex Press review
- Speak the Truth, Laughing nine stories and a novella, House Arrest (Spinifex, 2002)API Review
[edit] Notes
- ^ Zwi, Rose. AustLit Agent. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
- ^ Olive Schreiner Prize Winners. The English Academy of Southern Africa. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
- ^ 1994 Human Rights Medal and Awards. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
[edit] References
- Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
- The English Academy of Southern Africa (Retrieved 11-August-2007)
- Zwi, Rose Austlit (retrieved 11-August 2007)
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| NAME | Zwi, Rose |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8 May 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oaxaca, Mexico |
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