About
Nadine Gordimer, born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, South Africa, was a major novelist and short-story writer. She began writing in childhood and published her first collection, Face to Face, in 1949. Her first novel, The Lying Days (1953), is semi-autobiographical. An anti-apartheid activist, several of her books were banned by the regime. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She was also an HIV/AIDS activist. She died in Johannesburg on 13 July 2014.
* 1923-11-20 — † 2014-07-13
Major works
- The Lying Days (1953)novel
- The Conservationist (1974)novel
- Burger's Daughter (1979)novel
- July's People (1981)novel
- The Pickup (2001)novel
Key milestones
- 1974Won the Booker Prize for The Conservationist.
- 1991Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2004Edited the fundraising anthology Telling Tales for HIV/AIDS activism.
Themes
ApartheidPolitical activismPrivate and public lifeExile and belongingInterracial relations
Sources: nobelprize.org · nobelprize.org · britannica.com
