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Sonia Rollnick
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Sonia Rollnick was born in Russia in 1923. When she was two years old, her family came to Southern Africa, settling in Rhodesia. She was educated in Salisbury (now Harare) and in Cape Town where she qualified as a teacher at UCT. A lover of languages, she taught herself French and studied Russian. Inspired by the language and humour of the Coloured community who lived and worked near her home in Newlands in the Cape, she started writing short stories with this community as the subject. Seven of the stories were published by The New Yorker between 1958 and 1961. She was married to Julian Rollnick and had two sons. She died in 2003.