Author Stefanie Zweig dies aged 81
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Published: 27 Apr, 2014 CET.
Updated: Sun 27 Apr 2014 17:12 CET
German-Jewish author Stefanie Zweig has died aged 81. She was best known for her autobiographical novel "Nowhere in Africa".
News agency dpa said on Sunday the writer had died on Friday after a "short, serious illness," quoting her nephew Walter Zweig.
She was born in 1932 in Leobschütz, now part of southern Poland.
Her family fled the Nazis in 1938 and headed to Kenya. She recounted her childhood there in "Nowhere in Africa".
Zweig returned to Germany in 1947 and started a career as a writer.
Her most successful book was "Nowhere in Africa," published in 1995, and a movie adaptation of it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
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News agency dpa said on Sunday the writer had died on Friday after a "short, serious illness," quoting her nephew Walter Zweig.
She was born in 1932 in Leobschütz, now part of southern Poland.
Her family fled the Nazis in 1938 and headed to Kenya. She recounted her childhood there in "Nowhere in Africa".
Zweig returned to Germany in 1947 and started a career as a writer.
Her most successful book was "Nowhere in Africa," published in 1995, and a movie adaptation of it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
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