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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 , recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
Nadine Gordimer (born November 20, 1923, Springs, Transvaal [now in Gauteng], South Africa—died July 13, 2014, Johannesburg) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose major theme was exile and alienation. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Biographical. Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923. Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer. Has lived all her life, and continues to live, in South Africa. Principal works: 10 novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, A Sport of Nature, My Son’s Story and her most recent, None to Accompany Me.
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Nadine Gordimer, born in 1923 and, in Seamus Heaney‘s words, one of “the guerrillas of the imagination,” became the first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Dec 7, 1991 · The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 was awarded to Nadine Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"
Nadine Gordimer is a towering figure of world literature. She exemplifies a belief, now seemingly forgotten in a literary culture which has been under attack by the ubiquity of the superficial, that a writer can be the mouthpiece of a time, a spokesperson for a crusade, and a tireless examiner of moral and psychological truth.
Jul 14, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Sunday in...
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get a Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup.
Jul 14, 2014 · Over several decades, Nadine Gordimer, who has died aged 90, produced captivating fiction that laid bare the often grim realities of her native South Africa, both during and after apartheid.
