THE FIFTH MRS BRINK, a memoir

232pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2017

Writer and literary critic Karina Szczurek writes about her life before, during and after her marriage to Afrikaans writer and academic André P. Brink, who died in 2015.

Karina Szczurek is a writer and a literary critic. Born in Poland, she studied in Austria and Wales, and moved to South Africa in 2005. She is the author of Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer writing post-apartheid South Africa and the novel Invisible Others and editor of Touch: stories of contact by South African writers.