NADINE GORDIMER
Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923. Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer.
Has lived all her life, and continues to live, in South Africa.
Principal works: 10 novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist,
Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story and her most
recent, None to Accompany Me.
10 short story collections, the most recent Jump, published 1991, and Why Haven't
You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, published 1992.
Non-fiction: The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters.
Among honorary degrees: from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, New School for Social
Research, USA; University of Leuven, Belgium, University of York (England),
Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Cambridge
University (England).
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).
Vice-President of International PEN.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific
Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997
Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923. Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer.
Has lived all her life, and continues to live, in South Africa.
Principal works: 10 novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist,
Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story and her most
recent, None to Accompany Me.
10 short story collections, the most recent Jump, published 1991, and Why Haven't
You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, published 1992.
Non-fiction: The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters.
Among honorary degrees: from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, New School for Social
Research, USA; University of Leuven, Belgium, University of York (England),
Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Cambridge
University (England).
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).
Vice-President of International PEN.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific
Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997