Gordimer, Nadine
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Gordimer, Nadine (1923– ), South African novelist and short- story writer, awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Most of her work is concerned with the political situation in her native land; her protests against apartheid and censorship were outspoken. Among her collections of stories are
The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1953),
Friday's Footprint (1960),
Livingstone's Companions (1972),
Jump (1991), and
Loot, and Other Stories (2003). Her novels include
A Guest of Honour (1970) concerning an English colonial administrator who returns to the complexities of a newly independent African country;
The Conservationist (1974, joint winner of the
Booker Prize);
Burger's Daughter (1979), which describes the personal and political heritage of Rosa Burger; and
July's People (1981), a novella set in the future, in which a white family on the run from civil war find themselves dependent on their black servant. Later novels include
A Sport of Nature (1987),
My Son's Story (1990),
None To Accompany Me (1994),
The House Gun (1996), and
The Pickup (2001). She has also published collections of essays. See also
post-colonial literature.
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Imagery and structure in Nadine Gordimer's "Once upon a Time".
Magazine article from: Journal of Literary Studies; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Summary In Nadine Gordimer's story "Once upon a Time" published...terrible beauty". Opsomming Nadine Gordimer se verhaal "Once upon a Time...Nafisi 2004: 3) Writing about Nadine Gordimer's 1991 collection "Jump" and...
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South African Novelist Wins Nobel; Nadine Gordimer, the Apartheid Critic Who Conjures a Torn Time and Place
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/4/1991; ; 700+ words
; Nadine Gordimer, South Africa's leading...call from Bishop Tutu," Gordimer said. Asked what he had...author smiled. "He said, `Nadine, mmm, mmm, mmm...Speaking calmly and precisely, Gordimer credited Upton Sinclair...
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 "Daily News (South Africa)")
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Which Gordimer is Qunta talking about? A recent attack on Nobel Prize winning writer Nadine Gordimer by columnist Christine Qunta has brought the following response from Mosiuoa Lekota in the author's defence.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (South Africa); 5/25/2007; 700+ words
; The Nadine Gordimer we know is a heroine of the struggle against apartheid...open to the membership of all South Africans did Gordimer and her husband take its membership. Which Nadine Gordimer is Qunta talking about? When Gordimer volunteered...
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 "The Star (South Africa)")
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Which Gordimer is Qunta talking about? The Nadine we know is a heroine of the struggle against apartheid.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa); 5/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...place in perspective the role that author Nadine Gordimer has played in our society. The Gordimer...membership of all South Africans did Gordimer and her husband take its membership. Which Nadine Gordimer is Qunta talking about? When Gordimer...
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CAPTURING THE PAIN OF THE PARTICULAR Reading Nadine Gordimer is more like standing in a high wind than being lulled by breezes.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; JUMP AND OTHER STORIES By Nadine Gordimer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...20. The ache at the center of Nadine Gordimer's fiction is its most poignant...the terrain she's covered, Nadine Gordimer's prose has often assumed an...
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 "Cape Argus (South Africa)")
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The two faces of Nadine Gordimer; The writer's public image is at odds with the /prejudices of her private persona, writes Christine Qunta.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 5/21/2007; 700+ words
; The writings of Nadine Gordimer are boring. I know this because...more humble. Last year, a book on Gordimer was written by Ronald Suresh Roberts...unforgivable thing and presented Nadine Gordimer as she really is through her writings...
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South African writer given Nobel Nadine Gordimer chronicled sorrows of her native land
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/4/1991; ; 700+ words
; South African writer Nadine Gordimer, premier literary witness to her...century history of the Nobel. Gordimer, 67, is the author of 10 novels...as banned in her native country, Gordimer has consistently refused to leave...
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Interview: Nadine Gordimer discusses Anthony Sampson, who died this week at the age of 78
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...12-20-2004 Interview: Nadine Gordimer discusses Anthony Sampson, who...Sampson. The South African writer Nadine Gordimer knew Sampson for more than 50...to South African life. Ms. NADINE GORDIMER (Writer): He was brought at...
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Interview: Nadine Gordimer discusses the AIDS epidemic and the book she edited which will benefit South African AIDS patients
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 12/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...12-04-2004 Interview: Nadine Gordimer discusses the AIDS epidemic and...Tales," and it was edited by Nadine Gordimer, the South African winner of...contributors were also Nobel laureates. Nadine Gordimer was in New York this past week...
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The Dispossessed : Nadine Gordimer's new novel explores the contradictory longings of ill-fated lovers caught between two worlds.(The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer)
Magazine article from: World and I; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...on postcolonial literature. Book Info:THE PICKUP Nadine Gordimer Publisher:New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001 271 pp., $24.00 Nadine Gordimer's new novel brings to mind her chilling short story...
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Nadine Gordimer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nadine Gordimer , 1923-, South African writer, b...Bibliography: See Conversations with Nadine Gordimer (1990), ed. by N. T. Bazin and...Seymour; Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer (1998), ed. by D. Goldblatt...
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Gordimer, Nadine
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
GORDIMER, Nadine Nationality: South African. Born...Praise, and Oral History (all in The Gordimer Stories series), 1985 (USA); Frontiers...Knopf, 1988. Conversations with Nadine Gordimer, edited by Nancy ToppingBazin and Marilyn...
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Driver, C(harles) J(onathan)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...action in South Africa during the early 1960s. Like Nadine Gordimer's The Late Bourgeois World, it is an attempt to...its excessively uncritical view of Jeremy. Unlike Nadine Gordimer, who presents her revolutionary as an integral part...
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South African literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...prominence in the 1950s and 60s include Jack Cope, Nadine Gordimer , Frans Ventner, Bessie Head , Dan Jacobson, Peter...Bibliography: See South African Writing Today, ed. by N. Gordimer and L. Abrahams (1967); S. Gray, South African...
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Emecheta, (Florence Onye) Buchi
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Narratives by Sara Talis O'Brien. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Heinemann, 1998; This Is No Place for a Woman: Nadine Gordimer, Nayantara Sahgal, Buchi Emecheta, and the Politics of Gender by Joya Uraizee. Trenton, New Jersey, Africa World...
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