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Dec 7, 1991 · It is the story that wrote her or him into being. It was, strangely, a double process, creating at the same time both the writer and the very purpose of the writer as a mutation in the agency of human culture. It was both ontogenesis as the origin and development of an individual being, and the adaptation, in the nature of that individual ...
Jul 14, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer was born to Jewish immigrant parents on Nov. 20, 1923, in Springs, a mining town in the province now known as Gauteng (formerly part of the vast northeastern area referred to as ...
The 1991 Nobel Laureate in Literature Nadine Gordimer reads her short story ‘Loot’ from “Loot and Other Stories”. The video was recorded at Harvard University in April, 2005.
Jul 13, 2014 · Nadine. Last Name: Gordimer. 20-November-1923. Date of Death: 13-July-2014. 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.
Dec 10, 1991 · Nadine Gordimer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before.
Jul 14, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel Prize-winning author famed for her portrayals of South Africa under apartheid, died Sunday, her family said in a statement. She was 90. Gordimer was considered a modern ...
Jul 19, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, and in her Nobel address she said human beings devised writing to explore why we are here. "Since humans became self-regarding they have ...
