Rose Zwi
Rose Zwi (born May 8, 1928 in Oaxaca de Juárez , Mexico , † October 2018 in Sydney ) was a writer . She lived in numerous countries and had been an Australian citizen since 1992 .
Life
Zwi's parents were Jews who had lived in Žagarė in Lithuania and who emigrated to Mexico in 1926. Rose Zwi was born there in 1928, and in 1930 she moved to South Africa with her parents . In 1949 Rose Zwi emigrated to the newly founded Israel and married there. In 1952 she returned to South Africa. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg in 1967 . Zwi was a member of Black Sash until 1988 .
In 1988 Zwi emigrated to Australia. She has lived in Sydney ever since . In 1992 she received Australian citizenship. In the same year she visited Žagarė for the first time.
Most of the novels and stories are about people in South Africa, but the life of the Jews in Lithuania in the 1920s is also described. In Safehouses blacks - the lives of three families Buren and Jews - described in South Africa in the 1980s. Another year in Africa is also set in South Africa and portrays a Jewish family of emigrants in the 1930s. Last walk in Naryshkin Park portrays the fate of a Jewish, Lithuanian family amid anti-Semitism and persecution .
Awards
- 1982: Olive Schreiner Prize for Another Year in Africa
- 1994: Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Fiction Award for Safe Houses
Works
- 1980: Another year in Africa. Bateleur, Johannesburg, ISBN 0-620-02286-8 .
- 1981: The inverted pyramid. A novel. Novel. Ravan, Johannesburg, ISBN 0-86975-212-X .
- 1984: Exiles. A novel. Novel. AD Donker, Johannesburg, ISBN 0-86852-060-8 .
- 1991: The umbrella tree. Penguin, London, ISBN 0-14-013410-7 .
- 1993: Safe houses: A novel of love and hatred in South Africa. Spinifex, Melbourne, ISBN 1-74219-168-1 .
- 1997: Last walk in Naryshkin Park. Spinifex, Melbourne, ISBN 1-875559-72-8 .
- 2004: Last walk in Naryshkin Park. Travel to a foreign home. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin, ISBN 3-934703-82-8 .
- 2003: Speak the truth, laughing. Nine stories and a novella, House Arrest. Spinifex, Melbourne, ISBN 1-876756-21-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RiP Rose Zwi booksandpublishing.com.au, accessed on May 8, 2019
- ↑ RIP Rose Zwi. booksandpublishing.com of October 31, 2018 (English), accessed May 8, 2019
- ↑ Autobiographical Notes Relating to Lithuania (English), accessed October 3, 2011
- ↑ List of the award winners , accessed on October 3, 2011
- ↑ HREOC Prize Winner 1994 ( Memento from August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 3, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zwi, Rose |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African-Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oaxaca de Juarez , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2018 |
| Place of death | Sydney |