Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing[1] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".[2]
Rose-Innes was born in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is currently based. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Homing, (2011), published by Random House Struik, as well as two novels, Shark's Egg (2000)and The Rock Alphabet (2004), both published by Kwela Books. Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, a collection of essays and short stories, appeared in German translation in 2008[3] and The Rock Alphabet has also been published in Romanian (2007).[4] She has also compiled an anthology of South African writing, Nice Times! A Book of South African Pleasures and Delights (2006).[5]
Rose-Innes’s short pieces have appeared in a variety of publications, including AGNI [6] and Granta[7]. In 2007 she was the winner of the Southern African PEN short story award;[8] in that year she was also shortlisted for the Caine Prize.
She was a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007-8) and has held residencies at the Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; and Caldera Arts Center, Oregon. Her work has been translated into German, Arabic and Romanian.