SJOE! Ervarings van 'n leeftyd

289pp., paperback, Hemel & See Boeke, Vermont, 2025

ISBN: 9781037054600

Journalist, radio presenter, writer and publisher Petrovna Metelerkamp has sifted through decades of notes, diaries, letters, photos and other fragments and compiled this collection of memories, including growing up under apartheid, the writers she has known, and her questions around faith and the Dutch Reformed Church. 

Petrovna Metelerkamp is the author of Ingrid Jonker, 'n biografie; Ingrid Jonker, beeld van 'n digterslewe and Ingrid Jonker, a poet's life and Jeanne Goosen, n lewe vol sinne. She also compiled the collections Gesprekke oor Ingrid Jonker; n Blywende vreugde, briewe van Audrey Blignault; Mits dese wil ek vir jou sê, briewe van Hennie Aucamp; Briewe van Peter Blum and Briewe van Uys Krige. The founder of Hemel & See Books, she lives in Vermont.