Rozena Maart
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Dr. Rozena Maart is a South African writer, professor and psychotherapist, currently living in Canada. She has been recognized for her writing, and for her work opposing apartheid and violence against women. She has lectured throughout Canada and the United States.
She was born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. Her family was forcibly removed from District Six in 1973 as a result of the government’s Forced Removal Act. In 1987 when she was 24, Maart was nominated for the “Woman of the Year” award hosted in Johannesburg, for her work opposing violence against women and for starting, with four women, the first Black feminist organization in Cape Town, Women Against Repression (WAR).
She moved to Canada in 1989 and published her first book of poetry in 1990, Talk About It!. She won the Journey Prize in 1992 for her short story "No Rosa, No District Six." She is the author of several books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and novels, most recently the novel The Writing Circle, published in 2007.
