| Birth Place: | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation: | Novelist and short-story writer |
| Awards: | Caine Prize for African Writing (2008) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand[1] University of East Anglia |
| Thesis Title: | Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel |
| Thesis Url: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72630/ |
| Thesis Year: | 2019 |
Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing[2] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".[3] Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.
Rose-Innes was "born and bred" in Cape Town, South Africa.[4]
She has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), University of Cape Town.[5] She has a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.[6]
The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian (2007). Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008.[7] Nineveh has been translated into French[8] and Spanish[9] (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016).[10]
Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011), The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and Granta online.