In a telegram sent on 29 April 1963, Ingrid Jonker thanks Andre Brink for his letter and flowers. They had met a few days before. He was almost twenty- eight; she thirty. This was the beginning of a correspondence between two writers that lasted up until three months before Jonker drowned herself at Three Anchor Bay. Half a century later, their love letters are published here for the first time. In more than two hundred letters that have never been seen before, a gripping love affair unfolds.
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"Don't, for God's sake, Ingrid, go ahead with what you wanted to do in Jan [Rabie]'s house. I don't have, nor do I want, any reasonable grounds to persuade you. Perhaps I'm urging you purely for my own selfish considerations. But don't. You should still 'make' poems like 'Begin somer', 'Dood van 'n maagd', 'Bitterbessie dagbreek', 'Art poetique', the series 'Intieme gesprekkies'; and we should again 'make' that which you can't 'make' in Afrikaans: love." - AB, 21 April 1963. "You should really not call the book Die ambassadeur. No one will buy it...it's such a dusty old title." - IJ, 1 May 1963. "Do you think it wise to visit Bartho [Smit] and Stephen [Etienne le Roux] together (the two of us together)? In any case, I won't stop you - I'm just interested! Because when I received your beautiful letter, I treated the matter as a hot top secret. To date, Juliana Bouws is the only one who knows - I had to tell someone!" - IJ, 20 November 1964
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Penguin Random House South Africa
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978-1-4152-0879-3 (9781415208793)
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Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.
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