Another Year in Africa

Rose Zwi was born in Oaxaca, Mexico on May 8, 1928. She grew up in South Africa. She received an honours degree in English literature from the University of Witwatersrand in 1967. She worked as an editor at Raven Press. Her debut novel, Another Year in Africa, received South Africa's Olive Schreiner literary prize in 1982. She migrated to Australia in 1988. Her novel Safe Houses won the 1994 Australian Human Rights award for fiction and her nonfiction book Last Walk in Naryshkin Park won the Asia Pacific Publisher's Association Award. She died in October 2018 at the age of 90.

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