Stefanie Zweig

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Stefanie Zweig


Born
in Leobschütz, Germany
September 19, 1932

Died
April 25, 2014

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Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 1998), based on her early life in Kenya, which was filmed and won an Oscar in 2002 for "Best Foreign Film".[1] Her family, being Jewish, fled Nazi Germany, for Africa. They went from an urban life in Breslau (now Wrocław) to a farm in Kenya in 1938 when she was five. She attended an English boarding school while there.[2] In 1941, the family received a postcard from her grandmother saying "We are very excited, we are going to Poland tomorrow", which implied Auschwitz. Zweig has returned to Kenya twice since leaving in 1947 at the age of 15. She found the farm had been destroyed.

Her teenage years in Germany were recounted in the autobiographical nove
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“Fue Oha el que respiró ruidosamente. Aunque no quería, Regina se echó a reír, ya que él no sabía nada de la magia de convertir las preocupaciones en sonidos que no revelaban nada de las cosas que sólo la propia cabeza debía saber.”
Stefanie Zweig, En un lugar de África

“Ahora es cuando debes aprender a distinguir las cosas importantes de las que no lo son. En”
Stefanie Zweig, En un lugar de África

“at first, had some difficulties with this task. She thought hard about whether Ngong, only a few”
Stefanie Zweig, Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel