Love Letters

Discover the ‘Alphabet of Love’ with each letter representing an aspect of love as an illustration, interspersed with excerpts from world literature.

The two little legs of the H, entangled with fiery tongues and other body parts – represent ‘Horny’. The B, formed by two little birds lovingly interlocking their beaks – stands for ‘Lovebirds’. The ‘Alphabet of Love’ by illustrator Sanny Winters is world-class. Her love for letters and for love itself come together in her new book, where her illustrations are interspersed with excerpts from world literature. Armed with nothing but red, black, and white – and tons of inspiration – she transforms each letter into an icon of love.

Literary contributors to Love Letters include:
Milan Kundera, Gail Honeyman, Hermann Hesse, Clarice Lispector, Julian Barnes, W.H. Auden, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Baldwin, Philippe Besson, Valeria Luiselli, Javier Marías, Elena Ferrante, Mariana Enriquez, Sally Rooney, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Brett Easton Ellis, Stephen Fry, Bernadine Evaristo, Tom Robbins, Albert Camus, Peter Verhelst, Sándor Márai, Pablo Neruda, Anaïs Nin, Kenn Nesbitt, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Coe, Bart Moeyaert, Virgina Woolf, Jan Lauwereyns, Shakespeare, Johan Wolfgang Goethe, Marcel Proust, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Kahlil Gibran, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Oscar Wilde, Plato, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Heiner Müller.

Sanny Winters is one half of the graphic design duo Oeyen & Winters, which she forms together with her partner. As an illustrator, she previously published the books Belgium Xtra Bold, Ghent Xtra Bold, and Once Upon a Time… Little Red Riding Hood.