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Nadine Gordimer

Born

in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa

November 20, 1923

Died

July 13, 2014

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Eudora Welty, Nelson Mandela, E.M. Forster, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann,Eudora Welty, Nelson Mandela, E.M. Forster, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, Proust, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway...more

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Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".

Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority.

Gordimer was educated at a convent school and began writing at the young age of nine; her first short story was published when she was fifteen in the liberal Johannesburg magazine, Forum. She later spent a year at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg without receiving a degree. In 1948, she moved to Johannesburg where she lived most of her life. Gordimer has been awarded 10 honorary doctorates in literature from various universities around the world.

She grew up reading the great realists of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, and later would continue to cite the Russians in particular (Tolstoy, Turgenev and Dostoevsky) as her “masters”, but she also developed a fine eye and sophisticated tas

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Nadine Gordimer

Face to Face: Short Stories. Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books, 1949.

The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. London: Gollancz, 1953.

The Lying Days: A Novel. London: Gollancz, 1953, and New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

Six Feet of the Country. London and New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

A World of Strangers. London and New York: Gollancz, 1958.

Friday’s Footprint and Other Stories. London and New York: Gollancz, 1960.

Occasion for Loving. London and New York: 1963.

Not for Publication and Other Stories. London and New York: Gollancz, 1965.

The Late Bourgeois World. London and New York: Gollancz, 1966.

A Guest of Honour. New York: Viking Press, 1970. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.

Livingstone’s Companions. New York: Viking, 1971. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.

African Literature: The Lectures Given on this Theme at the University of Cape Town’s Public Summer School, February, 1972. Cape Town: Board of Extra-Mural Studies,