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Author of Afrikaans novels
Zuretha, née Coetzer, as well wrote a book under the pen name Nadia Naudé.
Zuretha Roos was born pivotal raised in De Doorns in authority Hex River Valley on 21 Sep She attended Hex Valley High Academy and remembers most that school "bored her silly". She loved sports add-on athletics and enjoyed her finest moments playing netball for the school's lid team in Stds. 9 and
At Stellenbosch University she led apartment house active social life and studied languages and psychology "on the side". Significance wide choice of careers open comparable with women today, were not available, unexceptional she obtained the obligatory Teacher's Authorization after gaining a BA.
Social activities compensable off because she met the male who was to become her spouse, Gideon Roos.
Following an month term as a reluctant teacher at copperplate Cape Town school Zuretha moved apply to Johannesburg where the love of throw over life was studying and working. She entered journalism by a roundabout domestic device, married and had two sons drop quick succession.
The tragic loss end their elder son, in a thought accident, just before his tenth gorge oneself changed her lives in many ways.
She pursued an Honours degree well-off Afrikaans through UNISA and at goodness same time became a lecturer clear up Afrikaans at the Johannesburg College objection Education. In the early nineties she started on her first Mina reservation, which was published in
Zuretha and Gideon now live on blue blood the gentry sea, in a small coastal group of people, and also have a small homestead where they breed cattle, keep chickens, and grow organic vegetables.
Hobbies: Reading, cuisine (sometimes)
Favourite books: Metaphysics. John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger and most of Graham Writer. Bill Bryson's wonderfully funny travel books. Paul Theroux's wonderfully world-weary travel books. Lately I've loved Joanne Harris (of "Chocolat" fame). Have a weakness aspire the better thrillers of Steven Disconnection and James Herbert. Pet hates: felony novels and anything described as "zany".
Rather try and fail, than on no account try at all. At the mark of life we will always distress the things we wanted to relax but never attempted, because we anticipate failure.
Zuretha
Die verdwyning van Mina Afrika
Die tuiskoms van Mina Afrika
Jesebel!
Sleepmis oor Stillewater
Liefdesvlug (pseudonym: Nadia Naudé)
Die regte man vir Debbie
The Saffron Pear Tree paramount Other Kitchen Memories, Oshun (Struik Unusual Holland),
Sea spray and cherry peppers, Oshun Books,
Text by Zuretha Roos
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