Rose Zwi

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

Biography

Zwi was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, to Jewish refugees from Lithuania who arrived in 1926 from Žagarė, and 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] While living in South Africa, she was part of the white anti-apartheid organization Black Sash.[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 lived in Sydney, New South Wales. She visited her parents' hometown, Žagarė, in 2006.[3]

She died in 2018 in Sydney, at the age of 90.[1]

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.[4]

Awards

Works
YearTitleImprintISBN
1980Another Year in AfricaRavan PressISBN 0869753169
1981The Inverted Pyramid : a NovelISBN 086975212X
1984Exiles: A NovelDonkerISBN 0868520608
1990The Umbrella TreePenguinISBN 0140134107
1993Safe HousesSpinifexISBN 1875559213
1997Last Walk in Naryshkin ParkISBN 1875559728
2002Speak the Truth, LaughingISBN 1876756217
2010Once Were Slaves: A Journey Through the Circles of HellSydney Jewish MuseumISBN 9780980545869

Bibliography
  • Claudia Bathsheba Braude, Contemporary Jewish Writing in South Africa: An Anthology, University of Nebraska, 2001
  • Elizabeth le Roux, Publishing against Apartheid South Africa, A Case Study of Ravan Press, Cambridge University Press, 2020

References
  1. "Zwi, Rose". AustLit Agent. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  2. "RiP Rose Zwi". Books and Publishing. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. Zhager. JewishGen
  4. 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>
  5. "Olive Schreiner Prize Winners". The English Academy of Southern Africa. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  6. "Rose Zwi". austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. "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


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