Rose Zwi (1928–2018)
Autore di Last Walk in Naryshkin Park
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1928-05-08
- Data di morte
- 2018-10-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Oaxaca, Mexico
- Luogo di morte
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Oaxaca, Mexico (birthplace)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Istruzione
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
literary editor - Breve biografia
- Rose Zwi was born in Mexico to Jewish refugees from Lithuania. When she was a young girl, her family moved to South Africa. She graduated from the University of Witwatersrand with a BA in English literature in 1967. She lived briefly in Israel, but returned to South Africa, where she worked as a literary editor at Ravan Press and was active in Black Sash, a civil rights organization. In 1988, she immigrated to Australia. She is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. For her book Last Walk in Naryshkin Park (1997), Rosa Zwi traced her roots back to the small town in Lithuania that her parents fled to escape rising anti-Semitism in the years leading up to WWII and the Holocaust.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 57
- Popolarità
- #287,973
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 19
The well-to-do Perlov family members, Jews of Lithuania, were literally forced out of their home and loaded onto trucks taking them to a train station, and from there they ended up in the frigid cold of Komi in Russia.
Their family journey through the labor camp experience and survival is written frankly, although with conflicting memories and stories. Rose Zwi doesn't mince words or try to color coat the experiences. When there is conflict in truth, she states it, when there is lack of memory, she states it.
Once out of the labor camps, various family members traveled throughout the world, like wandering Jews, some had found a home in Israel, others were emotionally displaced and constantly trekked the world. Most members of the family were separated for extremely long periods of time (50 years of two members) others were killed or had died, others tried to assimilate into their environment.
Once Were Slaves by Rose Zwi is a poignant book, a memoir of historical relevance and one that kept me reading straight through until I finished it.
I am glad to have read Once Were Slaves, and am grateful to the author for the review copy she sent me (unrelated to Library Thing).… (altro)