Zwi, Rose (1928–)

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Zwi, Rose (1928–)

South African novelist. Born May 8, 1928, in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Arrived in South Africa with family (1930) and lived in Johannesburg; lived in Israel (1949–53) and moved to Australia (1988); received Olive Schreiner Prize and Australian Human Rights Award for Literature (1994); works explore Communist Party politics, fascism, Afrikaner Nationalism, Zionism, and tension between personal and political; writings include Another Year in Africa (1980), The Inverted Pyramid (1981), Exiles (1984), and Safe Houses (1994).