Rachel Zadok

Rachel Zadok (born 1972 in Tel Aviv) is a South African writer.

Life

Zadok was born in 1972 and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied art and worked as a graphic designer.

In 2001 she moved to London where she began her first novel, Gem Squash Tokoloshe to write. It is about experiences of a white girl on a South African farm during apartheid, dealing with the separation of the parents and the mother's illness. In 2004, Zadok took part with the manuscript in a contest, where she won the publication by Pan Macmillan. The novel was nominated for the Whitbread Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the IMPAC Award.

Zadok came back to South Africa in 2010 and lives with her ​​husband and daughter in Cape Town. In 2013, her second novel, Sister Sister, was published.

Works

• Gem Squash, Tokoloshe. Novel. Pan Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 1-77010-071-7
• Sister Sister. Novel. Kwela Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7957-0472-7

Short stories appeared also in The Observer, in Jewish Chronicle, The Independent and African Violet, of the 2012 Caine Prize Anthology from 2012.