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Gordimer, Nadine

Born 1923, near Johannesburg. South African writer.

Gordimer wrote the novels The Lying Days (1953). A World of Strangers (1958), and The Late Bourgeois World (1966). as well as collections of stories, including The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952), Six Feet of the Country (1956), and Not for Publication and Other Stories (1965). As an opponent of racism, Gordimer shows sympathy for the Africans, although she does not fully value the significance of the struggle against apartheid.

WORKS

Friday’s Footprint, and Other Stories. New York, 1960.
A Guest of Honour. New York. 1970.
In Russian translation:
Rasskazy. [Foreword by A. Petrikovskaia.] Moscow, 1971.

REFERENCES

Ulman. R. “Nadine Gordimer.” Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 33. May 1959, no. 9, p. 616.
McGuiness, F. “The Novels of Nadine Gordimer.” London Magazine, vol. 5. June 1965, pp. 97–102.

S. P. KARTUZOV

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References in periodicals archive

with Nadine Gordimer. Jackson: University Press of Mississipi, 1990.

Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun: A Postmodern Text

Nadine Gordimer's novels include usually a long array of characters, amongst emerge female protagonists whose lives impart how living in the turmoil apartheid caused looks like.

"Who am I?": between the burden of the White House, clutches of political agency and eagerness for privacy in Nadine Gordimer's Occasion for Loving

Nadine Gordimer was born to Jewish immigrant parents on Nov.

Nadine Gordimer, novelist who took on apartheid, dies at 90

The aim is to produce a series reminiscent of London-based publisher Heinemann's African Writers Series, which was published for more than 40 years and helped bring such authors as Nadine Gordimer and Steve Biko to international fame.

Viewing Africa through African eyes

Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Elfriede Jelinek and over one hundred other authors from every continent, for a worldwide reading of texts by the Chinese author Liao Yiwu on June 4th 2010, the 21st commemorative day of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.

10th international literature festival berlin, september 15th - 26th 2010

Other visiting writers over the next few months include new Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and another Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer. Heaney, who lives in Dublin, is a lecturer as well as a writer.

Poet Heaney to present new work

Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess" performed by Fionuula Flanagan; Ed McBain's "Improvisation" performed by Isaiah Sheffer; "Shirley Jackson's "The Summer People" performed by Rene Auberjonois; Nadine Gordimer's "Country Lovers performed by Hattie Winston; and Louise Erdrich's "Gleason" performed by Robert Sean Leonard.

Whodunit?