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Rose Zwi

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Rose Zwi is a writier primarily known for her work about South Africa and the immigrant experience. She was born in Mexico to a Jewish refugee family from Lithuania but the family moved shortly afterwards to South Africa. Zwi has lived briefly in Israel returning to South Africa until 1988 when she relocated to Australia where she became a citizen in 1992. Her works include:

  • Another Year in Africa
  • Exiles : a novel
  • The inverted pyramid : a novel
  • Last walk in Naryshkin Park
  • Safe Houses
  • Speak the truth, laughing : nine stories and a novella, House arrest
  • The umbrella tree