Rose Zwi

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.

Another Year in Africa

Another Year in Africa is set in a fictional town of Mayfontein, near Johannesburg in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The novel is a chronicle of exile, alienation and assimilation centering a Jewish community of Lithuanian descent.^[2]

Awards

• 1982 - Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize for Another Year in Africa - a prize for new and emerging writers.^[3]
• 1994 - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Fiction Award for Safe Houses^[4]

Works

• Another Year in Africa (Bateleur Press, c1980)

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• 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
• Once Were Slaves (Sydney Jewish Museum, 2010)

Notes

References

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
• The English Academy of Southern Africa (Retrieved 11-August-2007)
• Zwi, Rose Austlit (retrieved 11-August 2007)