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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. ... Gordimer disowned the book, accusing Roberts of breach of ...
Nadine Gordimer at the Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden in 2010. Gordimer's homage to Fischer extends to using excerpts from his writings and public statements in the book. [17] Lionel Burger's treason trial speech from the dock [18] is taken from the speech Fischer gave at his own trial in 1966.
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".
July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war. [1] Unlike Gordimer's earlier work, the novel was ignored by the apartheid government's censor, though the book's South African publisher was later raided by the Security ...
The Pickup is a 2001 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. [1] It tells the story of a couple: Julie Summers, a white woman from a financially secure family, and Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant in South Africa. After Abdu's visa is refused, the couple returns to his unnamed homeland, where she is the alien.
The book is about the South African government's banning and subsequent unbanning of Gordimer's 1979 novel Burger's Daughter. [ 1 ] The collection was published in Johannesburg by Taurus Publications, a small underground publishing house established in the late-1970s to print anti-apartheid literature and other material South African publishers ...
No Time Like the Present is a 2012 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It was Gordimer's last published novel during her lifetime. The novel deals with a variety of issues in contemporary South Africa, including unemployment, HIV-AIDS, and corruption. [1]
The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The book was a joint winner of the Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction. [1] It is described as more complex in design and technique than Gordimer's earlier novels. [2]