Gordimer, Nadine

views updated

GORDIMER, Nadine

GORDIMER, Nadine. South African, b. 1923. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Literary criticism and history. Career: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991. Publications: NOVELS: The Lying Days, 1953; A World of Strangers, 1958; Occasion for Loving, 1963; The Late Bourgeois World, 1966; A Guest of Honour, 1970; The Conservationist, 1974; Burger's Daughter, 1979; July's People, 1981; A Sport of Nature, 1987; My Son's Story, 1990; None to Accompany Me, 1994; Harald, Claudia and their son, Duncan, 1996; The House Gun, 1998; The Pickup, 2001. SHORT STORIES: Face to Face: Short Stories, 1949; The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories, 1952; Six Feet of the Country, 1956, 1982; Friday's Footprint and Other Stories, 1960; Not for Publication and Other Stories, 1965; Livingstone's Companions: Stories, 1971; Selected Stories, 1975; Some Monday for Sure, 1976; A Soldier's Embrace, 1980; Town and Country Lovers, 1980; Something Out There, 1984; Reflections of South Africa: Short Stories, 1986; Crimes of Conscience: Selected Short Stories, 1991; Jump and Other Stories, 1991; Why Haven't You Written?: Selected Stories, 1950-1972, 1993; Loot, 2003. TELEVISION PLAYS AND DOCUMENTARIES: A Terrible Chemistry, 1981; (with H. Cassirer) Choosing for Justice: Allan Boesak, 1985; Country Lovers, A Chip of Glass Ruby, Praise, and Oral History, all part of The Gordimer Stories series adapted from stories of the same title, 1985. OTHER: (comp and ed. with L. Abrahams) South African Writing Today, 1967; African Literature: The Lectures Given on This Theme at the University of Cape Town's Public Summer School, February, 1972, 1972; The Black Interpreters: Notes on African Writing, 1973; On the Mines, 1973; (With others) What Happened to Burger's Daughter; or, How South African Censorship Works, 1980; Lifetimes under Apartheid, 1986; The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, 1988; Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics, 1991; (With R. Weiss) Zimbabwe and the New Elite, 1993; Writing and Being: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1995; Living in Hope & History: Notes from Our Century (essays), 1999. Contributor to periodicals.

More From encyclopedia.com