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Biography of Nadine GordimerName: Nadine GordimerBirth Date: November 20, 1923 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Springs, South Africa Nationality: South African Gender: Female Occupations: author Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apartheid, her later works reflect a move toward more radical political and literary formulations.Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923, in Springs, a mining town on the Eastern Witwatersrand, South Africa. Of Jewish heritage, her mother was from England and her father, from Russia. He worked in the gold mines, first as a mining engineer and later as secretary. Most of Nadine's life, apart from a brief period in Zambia in the middle 1960s, was spent in South Africa and the Witwatersrand, and it was here that she received her education, first as a day scholar at a convent and later as a student at the University of the Witwatersrand.From the time her first …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Son's Story (1990). She also looked at post-apartheid South Africa in the novels None to Accompany Me, published in 1994, and The House Gun, published in 1998. The Pickup (2001) told the story of a love affair torn apart by issues of citizenship and immigration. Nadine Gordimer received the Alfred B. Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. Further Reading A bibliography of Nadine Gordimer's work up to 1964 was complied by Racilia Jillian Nell and can be obtained from the Department of Bibliography, Librarianship and Typography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. For a study of Nadine Gordimer's work see Michael Wade, Nadine Gordimer (1978). Further discussion can be found in Kenneth Parker (editor), The South African Novel in English (1978); Stephen Gray, Southern African Literature: An Introduction (1979); and Landeg White and Tim Couzens (editors), Literature and Society in South Africa (1984). See also Richard Peck's, "Nadine Gordimer: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources 1938-1992," Research in African Literatures (March 1, 1995). |