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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.
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 ...
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland .
Gordimer herself was involved in South African struggle politics, and she knew many of the activists, including Bram Fischer, Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer. She modelled the Burger family in the novel loosely on Fischer's family, and described Burger's Daughter as "a coded homage" to Fischer. [2]
First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature [4] 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa: First White African woman to win a Nobel Prize 1993 Nelson Mandela: Peace: 1993 F. W. de Klerk: 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France (born in ...
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".
Books by Nadine Gordimer (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Nadine Gordimer" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature;