Nadine Gordimer
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born
November 20, 1923
gender
female
place of birth
Johannesburg, South Africa
influences
Nelson Mandela
about this author
Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity."
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July's People by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.56 — 610 ratings — published 1981 18 editions |
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The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.69 — 501 ratings — published 2001 15 editions |
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Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.68 — 231 ratings — published 1980 12 editions |
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The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.48 — 146 ratings — published 1998 17 editions |
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Jump and Other Short Stories by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 4.02 — 125 ratings — published 1900 10 editions |
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The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.34 — 128 ratings — published 1983 11 editions |
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Telling Tales by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.69 — 107 ratings — published 2004 6 editions |
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My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.65 — 108 ratings — published 1990 13 editions |
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None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.69 — 103 ratings — published 1994 15 editions |
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A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer avg rating 3.89 — 72 ratings — published 1987 8 editions |
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"What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else."
— Nadine Gordimer
— Nadine Gordimer
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"...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion."
— Nadine Gordimer
— Nadine Gordimer
"I don't want to know more about her; don't want to know her weaknesses or calculate them. What I have is not for her; he gives me to understand she would not know what to do with it; it's not her fault. --One is married and there is nothing to be done.-- Yet he has said to me, I would marry you if I could, meaning: I want very much to marry you. I offended him a bit by not being moved. It's other things he's said that are the text I'm living by. I really do not know if I want any form of public statement, status, code; such as marriage. There's nothing more private and personal than the life of a mistress, is there? Outwardly, no one even knows we are responsible to each other....
'This is the creature that has never been'--he told me a line of poetry about that unicorn, translated from German. A mythical creature. Un paradis inventé. "
— Nadine Gordimer (Burger's Daughter)
'This is the creature that has never been'--he told me a line of poetry about that unicorn, translated from German. A mythical creature. Un paradis inventé. "
— Nadine Gordimer (Burger's Daughter)
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