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Stefanie Zweig

Born

in Leobschütz, Germany

September 19, 1932

Died

April 25, 2014

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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 ...more

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	Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel by Stefanie Zweig, Marlies Comjean, Marlies I. Comjean (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 1,456 ratings — published 1995 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Haus in der Rothschildallee (Familie Sternberg, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere in Germany by Stefanie Zweig, Marlies Comjean (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1996 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heimkehr in die Rothschildallee (Familie Sternberg, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Kinder Der Rothschildallee (Familie Sternberg, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neubeginn in der Rothschildallee (Familie Sternberg, #4) 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ein Mundvoll Erde 3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Katze fürs Leben 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karibu heißt willkommen. Roman aus Afrika. 3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Es begann damals in Afrika 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nowhere in Africa (2 books)
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Quotes by Stefanie Zweig (?)

“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

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

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“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

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