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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.
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Roberts's first biography was No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer, about the Nobel Laureate and author Nadine Gordimer.He wrote the first draft of the biography between 1997 and 2002 with Gordimer's full cooperation, several interviews, and access to her personal archives. [4]
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In the book's titular essay, Gordimer documents the publication history and fate of Burger's Daughter, and investigates the implications of the banning and unbanning of works in South Africa. [4] The official communiqué by the Director of Publications, Richard Smith stating his reason for banning the book a month after publication is ...
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Following Gordimer's death in 2014, The Guardian and Time magazine put Burger's Daughter in their list of the top five Gordimer books. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Indian writer Neel Mukherjee included Burger's Daughter in his 2015 "top 10 books about revolutionaries", also published in The Guardian .
The letter follows Menendez’s trial on bribery charges, during which his his lawyers unsuccessfully tried to lay the blame for illegal activity on his second wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez.