Daphne Rooke

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Daphne Rooke (born March 6, 1914 in Boksburg , † January 21, 2009 in Cambridge ) was a South African writer.

Daphne Rooke was born in Boksburg in what was then the Transvaal as the youngest of six children. Her father was British and her mother was Afrikaaner . She worked as a journalist. In 1937 she married the Australian Irvin Rooke; In 1949 the couple emigrated to Australia. The University of Natal awarded Rooke an honorary doctorate in 1997. After her husband's death in 1989, she moved to Cambridge where she spent the rest of her life.

Works

Novels

  • The Sea Hath Bounds (later published as A Grove of Fever Trees )
  • Middle
  • Ratoons
  • Wizards' Country
  • Beti
  • A Lover for Estelle (1961)
  • The Greyling (1963)
  • Diamond Jo (1965)
  • Boy on the Mountain (1969)
  • Margaretha de la Porte (1974)

Short stories

  • The Friends, in South African Stories (1960)
  • Fikizolo, in Over the Horizon (1960)

Children's books

  • The South African Twins (1953)
  • The Australian Twins (1954)
  • New Zealand Twins (1957)
  • Double Ex! (1971)
  • A Horse of His Own (1976)
personal data
SURNAME Rooke, Daphne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Boksburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2009
Place of death Cambridge