Daphne Rooke

**Daphne Marie Rooke** (née **Pizzey** ) (6 Maachị 1914 – 21 Jenụarị 2009  ) bụ onye South Africa odee ọrụ dịka "Mittee", "Ratoons" na "Mba Ọkachamara". O dekwara akụkọ njem na akwụkwọ maka ụmụaka e debere na India, Australia, New Zealand, na Obodo South Africa.

Daphne Rooke mụrụ na Boksburg, Transvaal ; Nke ikpeazụ n'ime ụmụaka isii nke nne Afrikaaner mụrụ. Nna nna Daphne bụ Dietlof Siegfried Maré, onye nchoputa nke Pietersburg, onye nwere ụmụ ịrị abụọ na atọ site na nwunye abụọ. Otu n'ime nwanne nna Daphne bụ onye edemede Leon Maré. 

Nne Daphne bụ Maria Magdalena Maré, a mụrụ n'afọ 1878, onye a maara dị ka "Mittee".  Ọ lụrụ onye England, Edward Knevitte  ma ọ bụ Knevitt n'afọ 1899.  N'oge agha Anglo-Boer, esemokwu dị n'etiti Afrikaans na Bekee dị elu, na di na nwunye na ụmụ ha anọ (ụmụnne atọ nke Daphne na otu ọkara nwanne) ka a manyere ịhapụ Pietersburg n'ihi nwa amaala Bekee nke Knevitt.  O doro anya na ndị Mares na Knevitts enweghị obere kọntaktị ka oge a gachara.

Mgbe Edward Knevitt nwụsịrị, nne Daphne lụrụ onye England ọzọ, Robert Pizzey, n'afọ 1911,  wee mụọ ụmụ nwanyị abụọ ọzọ: Rosemary mụrụ n'afọ 1912 na Daphne mụrụ n'afọ 1914. Robert Pizzey lụrụ ọgụ wee nwụọ na Agha Ụwa Mbụ .  Mgbe ọ bụ nwata, Daphne na-enwekarị nsogbu obi na uto.  N'ụzọ bụ isi n'ihi ahụike Daphne,  ezi na ụlọ hapụrụ Highveld wee gaa nso na Durban Natal . Nne Daphne bụ onye nkụzi na onye nta akụkọ, nakwa onye edemede dị mkpirikpi.  O bipụtara nchịkọta akụkọ dị mkpirikpi *The Children of the Veld*, n'okpuru pseudonym "Mare Knevitt".

Nke a kpaliri Daphne ịnwale aka ya n'ide ihe. Ọ ghọrọ onye nta akụkọ na onye edemede. N'afọ 1946, ọ bụ onye meriri ihe nrite akwụkwọ edemede nke *Afrikaanse Pers*, maka ọrụ e mechara bipụta dị ka akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, n'okpuru aha *"A Grove of Fever Trees"* .  Ka ọ dị ugbu a (1937) ọ lụrụ onye Australia aha ya bụ Irvin ("Bertie") Rooke, onye ọ zutere mgbe ọ na-arụ ọrụ nhazi maka otu ndị ọrụ ụgbọ njem. Ka ha na ezinụlọ Bertie dị n’Australia nwee njikọ, ha gawara Australia n'afọ 1946.  Ha laghachiri Natal n'afọ 1953, ma echiche steeti ndị uwe ojii na South Africa kpasuru ha iwe, laghachi Australia n'afọ 1965. N'afọ 1980, Mahadum Natal "chọpụtara ya" ọrụ ya, bụ nke nyere ya nzere doctorate n'afọ 1997. Ọ nọgidere na Australia ruo mgbe Bertie nwụrụ n'afọ 1989 mgbe ọ kwagara Cambridge, England, bụ́ ebe o biri ndụ ya nile. 

Dabere na ndepụta mbipụta sitere na "Ndị akwụkwọ akụkọ oge a", vol.15, edemede nke Lynne Bryer 

### Akụkọ ihe mere eme

* *Osimiri atọ - Ihe ncheta* . Daffodil Press (2003) 

### Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya

* *Oke osimiri ahụ kpuchiri* . Ụlọ ahịa akwụkwọ APB (1946) mechara bipụta ya dị ka *A Grove of Fever Trees*, Houghton Miffin (1950), Jonathan Cape (1951).
* *Mitte* . Victor Golancz (1951), Houghton Miffin (1952), Chameleon Press (1987), Penguin Books (1991), Toby Press (2007) 
* *Ratoon* . Victor Golancz na Houghton Miffin (1953) Chameleon Press (1987), Toby Press (2007)
* *Obodo Ọkachamara* . Victor Golancz na Houghton Miffin (1957), Chameleon Press (1987) Toby Press (2007)  
* *Beti* . Victor Golancz na Houghton Miffin (1959).
* *Onye hụrụ Estelle n'anya* . Victor Golancz na Houghton Miffin (1961).
* *The Greyling* . Victor Golancz (1962), Reynal (1963).
* *Diamond Jo* . Victor Golancz na Reynal (1965).
* *Nwa nwoke n'Ugwu* . Victor Golancz (1969).
* *Margaretha de la Porte* . Victor Golancz (1974).

### Akụkọ dị mkpirikpi

* "Ndị Enyi," na *Akụkọ South Africa*, nke David Wright deziri. Faber & Faber na Duell (1960).
* "Fikizolo," na *Over the Horizon* . Victor Golancz (1960).

### Akwụkwọ ụmụaka

* *Ụmụ ejima South Africa* . Jonathan Cape (1953); dị ka *ejima na South Africa*, Houghton Miffin (1955).
* *Ụmụ ejima Australia* . Jonathan Cape (1954); dị ka *ejima na Australia*, Houghton Miffin (1956).
* *Ụmụ ejima New Zealand* . Jonathan Cape (1957).
* *Ugboro abụọ Ex!* . Victor Golancz (1971).
* *Ịnyịnya nke Ya* . Victor Golancz (1976).

## Ọmụmụ ihe dị egwu

* Orville Prescott, na *New York Times*, 1 Maachị 1950
* Dorothy Canfield Fisher, n'ime akwụkwọ akụkọ nke ọnwa (New York), Jenụwarị 1952
* Sylvia Stallings, na *New York Herald Tribune*, 20 Disemba 1953
* Paul Scott, na *Ndụ Obodo* (London), 24 Mee 1962
* RW Johnson, na *Times Literary Supplement* (London), 5 Julaị 2006 

## Nchịkọta ihe odide

* Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Mugar Memorial Library, Mahadum Boston, USA;
* National English Literary Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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