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Gordimer was born to Jewish parents near Springs, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg.She was the second daughter of Isidore Gordimer (1887–1962), a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė in Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), [2] [3] and Hannah "Nan" (née Myers) Gordimer (1897–1973), a British Jewish immigrant from London.
Ronald Suresh Roberts (born 17 February 1968) is a British West Indian writer and lawyer. He is best known for his biographies of two leading figures in the "New South Africa", author Nadine Gordimer and former South African President Thabo Mbeki.
My Son's Story is the ninth novel by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer.It was written towards the end of the State of Emergency and first published in 1990. The very next year, Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son's Story in their press release, calling it "ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling".
The 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African activist and writer Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity." [1] She is the 7th female and first South African recipient of the prize followed by J. M. Coetzee in ...
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The Lying Days is the debut novel of Nobel winning South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer. It was published in 1953 in London by Victor Gollancz and New York by Simon & Schuster. It is Gordimer's third published book, following two collections of short stories, Face to Face (1949), and The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952).
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A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.