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.
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.
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]
| width=5% | Year ! | width=15% | Title ! | width=10% | Imprint ! | width=11% | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Another Year in Africa | ||||||
| 1981 | The Inverted Pyramid : a Novel | ||||||
| 1984 | Donker | ||||||
| 1990 | The Umbrella Tree | ||||||
| 1993 | Safe Houses | ||||||
| 1997 | Last Walk in Naryshkin Park | ||||||
| 2002 | Speak the Truth, Laughing | ||||||
| 2010 |