Francis Galloway – författare

In a telegram sent on 29 April 1963, Ingrid Jonker thanks André 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.

In a telegram sent on 29 April 1963, Ingrid Jonker thanks André 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.

Op 29 April 1963 stuur Ingrid Jonker ’n telegram aan André P. Brink om dankie te sê vir blomme en ’n brief wat hy vir haar gestuur het. Hulle het mekaar ’n paar dae tevore ontmoet. Hy was agt-en-twintig; sy ’n jaar ouer. Só begin ’n briewewisseling tussen twee skrywers wat duur tot sy laaste brief aan haar in April 1965. Jonker verdrink haarself by Drie ankerbaai drie maande daarna. ’n Halfeeu later kom hulle liefdesbriewe vir die eerste keer aan die lig en ontvou daar in meer as tweehonderd skrywes een van Suid-Afrika se aangrypendste liefdesverhoudings.