Nadine gordimer biography

South African writer (1923–2014)

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".^[1]

Gordimer was one of the most honored female writers of her generation. She received the Booker Prize for The Conservationist, and the Central News Agency Literary Award for The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter and July's People.

Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organisation was banned, and gave Nelson Mandela advice on his famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.

Early life

Gordimer was born to Jewish parents near Springs, an East Randmining town outside Johannesburg. She was the second daughter of Isidore Gordimer (1887–1962), a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė in Lithuania (then pa

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Nadine Gordimer

Born

in Springs, Transvaal, Southern Africa

November 20, 1923

Died

July 13, 2014

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Eudora Welty, Admiral Mandela, E.M. Forster, Albert Camus, Clockmaker Mann,Eudora Writer, Nelson Solon, E.M. Forster, Albert Writer, Thomas Pedagogue, Proust, Katherine Anne Inferior, William Falkner, Ernest Hemingway...more

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was known as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".^[1] She was of Jewish descent.

Gordimer's writing helped abolishing apartheid in South Africa.^[2] She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. Later on she was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.

Gordimer was one of 20 Nobel Laureates^[3] who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.^[4] Gordimer was born near Springs, a small town outside of Johannesburg on 20 November 1923.^[5]

Gordimer died on 13 July 2014 at the age of 90.^[6][7]

Further reading

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• Ronald Suresh Roberts, No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (2005)
• No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer by Ronald Suresh Roberts (STE)

References

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1. ↑"A Writer's Life: Nadine GordimerArchived 2008-04