Nadine Gordimer





Nadine Gordimer

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born
in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 20, 1923

gender
female

genre

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."

See http://www.contemporarywriters.com/au...


Average rating: 3.57 · 9,858 ratings · 1,088 reviews · 58 distinct works · Similar authors
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The Pickup
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Burger's Daughter
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions
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The House Gun
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 1998 — 23 editions
My Son's Story
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1990 — 23 editions
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None to Accompany Me
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions
Sport Of Nature
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions
Telling Tales
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2004 — 13 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.”
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“Books dont need batteries”
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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
Nadine Gordimer

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