Rose Zwi

Rose Zwi ( 8 May 1928 – 22 October 2018) was a Mexican-born South African–Australian writer best known for her work about the immigrants in South Africa. 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][2]

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 lived 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 the Jewish community of Lithuanian descent.[3]

Awards

• 1982 – Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize for Another Year in Africa – a prize for new and emerging writers.[4]
• 1982 – Mofolo-Plomer Prize for an unpublished novel (The Umbrella Tree)[5]
• 1994 – Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Fiction Award for Safe Houses[6]

Works

Year	Title	Imprint	ISBN
1980	Another Year in Africa	Ravan Press	ISBN 0869753169
1981	The Inverted Pyramid : a Novel		ISBN 086975212X
1984	Exiles: A Novel	Donker	ISBN 0868520608
1990	The Umbrella Tree	Penguin	ISBN 0140134107
1993	Safe Houses	Spinifex	ISBN 1875559213
1997	Last Walk in Naryshkin Park		ISBN 1875559728
2002	Speak the Truth, Laughing		ISBN 1876756217
2010	Once Were Slaves: A Journey Through the Circles of Hell	Sydney Jewish Museum	ISBN 9780980545869

References

1. "Zwi, Rose". AustLit Agent. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
2. "RiP Rose Zwi". Books and Publishing. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
3. Angelfors, C. & Olaussen, M (eds) 2009, Africa Writing Europe: Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement, Editions Rodopi B.V, The Netherlands.Viewed 29 August 2014 <https://www.google.co.za/#q=ROSE+ZWI&start=10>
4. "Olive Schreiner Prize Winners". The English Academy of Southern Africa. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
5. "Rose Zwi". austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
6. "1994 Human Rights Medal and Awards". Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature