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Born in 1971 in Cape Town, Henrietta Rose-Innes attended the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BSc with a major in Archaeology. She then took Honours in Biological Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She spent some time in publishing and travelled to South America before returning to Cape Town in 1997 to complete her masters in Creative Writing. Her short stories, essays and poems have appeared in several South African publications.

Henrietta Rose-Innes has had two novels published by Kwela Books. Her first novel, Shark's Egg, was published in 2000 and was nominated for the M-Net Book Prize. The Rock Alphabet, published in 2004, was selected as part of Publisher's Choice. She has participated in many public writers’ events and festivals, including the Time of the Writer Festival, the LitNet Online Literary Conference, the Celebrate Women Book Festival, Learning Cape, World Book Day, Turning the Page, the 5th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair (2001) and Old World New Images: Conversations on South African Writing (London, 2001). In 2004 she was a guest at the Château de Lavigny Writers’ Residence in Lausanne, Switzerland; in April 2006 she was Writer in Residence at the UCT Centre for Creative Writing, and in 2007 she will hold a fellowship at the Schloss Solitude Writers’ Residence in Stuttgart, Germany.

Henrietta has worked as a scriptwriter for television and film productions. She currently works as a supervisor and examiner for the University of Cape Town’s Creative Writing Masters Course and as a literary editor for various South African publishers. She is writing a third novel, and working on several collaborative literary projects.

Opgedateer/Updated: 2006-09-01
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