NADINE GORDIMER

Nadine Gordimer is an exceedingly distinguished SA writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"  For decades Gordimer, who was born in 1923, has dealt with moral and racial issues in her writings, particularly the erstwhile apartheid system.

Her works began achieving literary recognition early in her career, with her first international recognition in 1961, followed by numerous literary awards throughout the ensuing decades. Her books include The Lying Days, A world of strangers, A Guest of Honour, July’s People, Burger’s Daughter, Occasion for Loving, The late Bourgeois World, A Sport of Nature, None to Accompany Me, My Son’s story, The House Gun, and Get a Life’ and her 2012 novel, No Time like the Present.

Studies:

The novels of Nadine Gordimer : history from the inside by Stephen
Clingman 


Nadine Gordimer by Robert F Haugh 


Nadine Gordimer revisited by Barbara Temple-Thurston

Critical essays on Nadine Gordimer 

Betrayals of the body politic : the literary commitments of Nadine Gordimer by Andrew V Ettin 

The novels of Nadine Gordimer : private lives/public landscapes by John Cooke


Nadine Gordimer by Judie Newman

Nadine Gordimer by Dominic Head 

Rereading Nadine Gordimer by Kathrin M Wagner

The later fiction of Nadine Gordimer 

Nadine Gordimer by Christopher Heywood 

Nadine Gordimer by Michael Wade