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 Biography of Nadine Gordimer
889 words, approx. 3 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Nadine Gordimer
13,150 words, approx. 44 pages
 A Nobel Prize winner, an outspoken critic of apartheid, a frequently controversial public figure in her native South Africa, and one of the leading novelists of her age, Nadine Gordimer has been writing since her teens. Her first short story, written... summary from source:
 Biography of Nadine Gordimer
2,136 words, approx. 7 pages
"Nadine Gordimer has become, in the whole solid body of her work, the literary voice and conscience of her society," declared Maxwell Geismar in Saturday Review. In numerous novels, short stories, and essays, she has written of her South African... 
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 Nadine Gordimer Quotes
2,797 words, approx. 9 pages
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923 ) is a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Writing and Being (1991) 1.2 Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991) 2...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Nadine Gordimer Information
4,147 words, approx. 14 pages
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel Prize in literature laureate. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She was active in the...
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 Contemporary Review The Novels of Nadine Gordimer.
02/01/1994: 656 words, approx. 2 pages Nadine Gordimer is a distinguished South African writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. That award necessarily made her novels and short stories more available, and more recognizable, for a global readership. Professor Clingman, formerly of Oxford University, now... summary from source:
World Literature Today Nadine Gordimer: The Pickup.
01/01/2002: 631 words, approx. 2 pages New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2001 270 pages. $24. ISBN 0-374-23210-5 NADINE GORDIMER'S latest novel, The Pickup, can be summed up in a terse sentence of three words: Life is elsewhere. In this deceptively simple tale of love and affection, the... summary from source:
 AP News Gordimer gets French Legion of Honor
4/2/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pagesNobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend... summary from source:
AP News Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pagesNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Judith Newman
46,857 words, approx. 156 pages
In the following essay, Newman discusses Gordimer's life, career, awards and recognition, and overall body of work, while also examining the era in which Gordimer wrote and the critical reception of her works.
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Critical Essay by Karen Lazar
9,070 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Lazar examines Gordimer's attitude toward Feminism as evidenced in her short fiction collection.
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Critical Essay by Judie Newman
7,583 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Newman analyzes the psychological connections that Rosa makes between race and sexuality in Burger's Daughter in relation to prevailing cultural attitudes toward each.
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