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	Nadine Gordimer
		Nadine Gordimer was born into a well-off family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg.
		Gordimer uses the mopane tree as a symbol of life and death - the chief hangs himself in the mopane, the dead are buried in the mopane, and finally the tree becomes a means of consolidation."The women are to be seen carrying tins and grain panniers of mud up from the river.
		Nadine Gordimer rejected in 1998 the candidacy for Orange Award, because the award was restricted to woman writers.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gordimer.htm (1345 words)

	Nadine Gordimer
		Nadine Gordimer's subject matter in the past has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans and the moral and psychological tensions of life in a racially-divided country, which she often wrote about by focusing on oppressed non-white characters.
		Gordimer has been a fervent campaigner against racism in South Africa and has long held an iconic status there; she is a champion of tolerance, free speech and understanding and her conviction and self-belief in refusing to become an exile, despite the banning of three of her works by the South African regime, is laudable.
		Gordimer stories are testament to her belief in the redemptive power of humanity and the ability to overcome what she has called ‘the violence of pain’ even if that pain is inflicted by the state.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618 (1827 words)

	Nadine Gordimer (2) \| BR-alpha \| Bayerischer Rundfunk
		Nadine Gordimer wurde 1923 in Springs, einer Bergwerkssiedlung in der Nähe von Johannesburg, geboren.
		Nadine Gordimer zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autorinnen der Weltliteratur.
		Während der Zeit ihres "Schnupperstudiums" an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Johannesburger Witwatersrand-Universität lernte Nadine Gordimer den afrikanischen Schriftsteller Uys Krige kennen, in dessen Literaturzeitschrift sie einige ihrer Werke veröffentlichen konnte.
	www.br-online.de /alpha/campus/vor0412/20041214.shtml (1026 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Nadine Gordimer
		Gordimer's gift for tense moral drama is apparent on every page, as are her remarkable observational skills, even when she's describing something as pedestrian as a man taking a sip of liquor.
		Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 in the small mining town of Spring, South Africa.
		Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1998/03/cov_si_09int.html (820 words)

	Nadine Gordimer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society.
		Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923, in Springs, a mining town on the Eastern Witwatersrand, South Africa.
		Most of Nadine's life, apart from a brief period in Zambia in the middle 1960s, was spent in South Africa and the Witwatersrand, and it was here that she received her education, first as a day scholar at a convent and later as a student at the University of the Witwatersrand.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/nadine-gordimer (858 words)

	Fiction: Nadine Gordimer
		In this speech given by Gordimer at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, the author discusses her documentary film on the similarities between the fall of communism in Berlin and the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
		Gordimer discusses other universal human issues that are in her work and reveals the influences behind her activism.
		Gordimer attended a convent school and studied at the University of Witwatersrand, getting what she has called "a scrappy and uninspiring minimal education." Growing up in South Africa, she never recognized herself in any of the English books she read until she encountered the stories of the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/gordimer.htm (485 words)

	Nadine Gordimer
		Nadine Gordimer, Prix Nobel 1991, sud-africaine d'origine juive, blanche, militante anti-apartheid, a toujours été victime d'un malentendu: celui de n'être vue que comme un porte-parole, une conscience engagée de la même manière dans son écriture que dans sa lutte.
		Nadine Gordimer : L'apartheid a détruit la culture de la majorité du peuple, les langues africaines, qu'il faut revitaliser par tous les moyens, la capacité des gens pour pouvoir trouver leur propre expression, et bien d'autres choses.
		Nadine Gordimer : Mon sentiment est que, si vous écrivez deux livres ou si vous en écrivez vingt, vous écrivez toujours en réalité un seul livre.
	www.republique-des-lettres.fr /249-nadine-gordimer.php (1126 words)

	Nadine Gordimer: Crimes of Conscience
		Gordimer's father had no interest in civic affairs, but her mother took an active role in the community, p articularly associating with the Scots Presbyterians.
		To Gordimer, So uth Africa's history is merely one instance of a larger, global phenomenon of Western world decolonization, which for her is the central fact and moral question of the twentieth century.
		Gordimer in her fiction writes from inside the consciousness of characters who are white, fl, Indian, male, female.
	www.sdsmt.edu /online-courses/is/hum375/gordimer.html (3501 words)

	Nadine Gordimer - Cambridge University Press
		The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid.
		Head shows how Gordimer’s concerns, apparent in her earliest novels, are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he pursues the implications of this development to consider how Gordimer’s later work contributes to postmodernist fiction, and to a recentering of political engagement in an era of uncertainty.
		Gordimer and South Africa: themes, issues and literary identity; 2.
	www.cambridge.org /052147549X (219 words)

	South African Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer assaulted in home - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said Gordimer, 83, did not sustain serious injuries when she was assaulted Thursday for refusing to hand over her wedding ring.
		He said the Gordimer was robbed of cash and jewelry when three unknown men gained entrance to her home at about 10:30 a.m.
		Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is noted for her novels and short stories about the inhumanity of apartheid.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2006-10-28-gordimer_x.htm (368 words)

	Something Out There
		Gordimer has done nothing that would be cause to deny her abilities as a writer or to dismiss her work as unimportant.
		"Gordimer clear-sightedly condemns the penchant for the exotic, the corrupting fascination with the dispossessed, that manifested itself as "revolutionary tourism" on the part of opportunistic travelers in the 1980s….Despite her astringent rejection of such behavior, Gordimer will continue to be dismissed by some, especially in South Africa, as irrelevant" (Greenstein).
		Nadine Gordimer's work may be adopted by some, but despite her political interests, she does not claim to speak for anyone but herself.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/somethingoutthere.html (3944 words)

	More on Nadine Gordimer
		Gordimer's latest novel, 'The House Gun,' suggests -- as her 1994 novel 'None to Accompany Me' did -- that she has yet to come to terms, artistically, with the dismantling of apartheid and her country's drastically altered social landscape.
		Gordimer explains that the South African resettlement of fls is not a benign policy meant to clear out slums or improve economic efficiency, as its defenders claim.
		This name springs to one's mind because Miss Gordimer is a writer who can not only capture but express in the lives of human beings those moments which are so fleeting, so impalpable, as well as so common that they are overlooked by all but a very rare artist.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/01/home/gordimer.html (1224 words)

	Nadine Gordimer: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was in recognition of this achievement, of having borne untiring and lucid narrative witness, that Gordimer was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Gordimer has drawn criticism both for her apparent lack of attention to feminism in favor of race issues and for the wholeness and unfashionable completeness of her novels--their plottedness, meticulous scene painting, fully realized characters.
		Gordimer's subject, as she emphasozes, is much more than apartheid; it is the human being in history.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/sa/gordimer/gordimerbio.html (383 words)

	Nadine Gordimer \| TIME Europe Magazine \| 60 Years of Heroes
		Nadine Gordimer says the proudest day of her life was not when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, but when she testified at a 1986 treason trial on behalf of 22 South African anti-apartheid activists.
		Yet Gordimer's greatest contributions to the struggle in her native land have been carried out in her study.
		Gordimer, 83, points out the kinds of pitfalls that have caused other postrevolutionary governments to stumble.
	www.time.com /time/europe/hero2006/gordimer.html (333 words)

	Nadine Gordimer at AllExperts
		Nadine Gordimer (born November 20, 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.
		She was born in Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer.
		Gordimer was educated at an Anglican convent school.
	en.allexperts.com /e/n/na/nadine_gordimer.htm (365 words)

	Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa.
		Through the experiences of her characters, Gordimer explored clearly and without sentimentality how officially-imposed prejudice and repression devastated lives and offended the basic principles of social justice.
		While in mid-career, Gordimer also taught and lectured at colleges in the U.S. and supported political movements to rescind her nation's racist policies.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Gordimer.html (164 words)

	Amazon.fr : Get A Life: Livres en anglais: Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The phrase "late work" is usually reserved for masters, and it is appropriate to this 14th novel from Gordimer, whose cruel meditations on mortality and commitment are enacted within two marriages a generation apart.
		Gordimer's narrator is chilly, remote and omniscient, toying with the characters and taking shots at them at almost every opening, particularly the two career-women: "How girlishly exciting it must have been," says the narrator of Lyndsay's past affair, begun at a conference.
		He begins to brood about his marriage to a chipper advertising executive, whom he suddenly sees as a person "who has no need of convictions." Gordimer is more concerned with ideas than with character, and her dense syntax saps feeling from even the most dramatic events.
	www.amazon.fr /Get-Life-Nadine-Gordimer/dp/0374161704 (614 words)

	Amazon.com: The Conservationist: Books: Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nadine Gordimer observes South Africa's decay largely through the internal monologues of a wealthy businessman disconnected from life.
		Gordimer finds him at a time in his life when he is middle-aged and living alone, no longer married, his grown son estranged from him, and his mistress not all that endeared to him.
		Gordimer doesn't state them as such, but chooses to weave them into everyday's life in a way that is so matter-of-fact.
	www.amazon.com /Conservationist-Nadine-Gordimer/dp/0140047166 (1778 words)

	Nadine Gordimer
		For a 1976 collection of 700 authors' self-portraits, Gordimer drew a picture of two cats.
		A political novelist celebrated for her grasp of history and delicate sensitivity to the human tensions of apartheid, three of her 22 books have been banned in her native South Africa.
		Gordimer believes the short story is the form for our age, "where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness.
	www.geocities.com /asmadre/gordimer4 (320 words)

	The Hindu : International : Nadine Gordimer assaulted
		JOHANNESBURG: South African Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer was robbed and locked in a store room by thieves who assaulted her in her home, the police said.
		Gordimer, 83, did not sustain serious injuries when she was assaulted on Thursday for refusing to hand over her wedding ring.
		Gordimer to a bedroom and demanded she open the safe.
	www.hindu.com /2006/10/29/stories/2006102900331800.htm (216 words)

	Amazon.ca: Julys People: Books: Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gordimer joined the ranks of Achebe, Tisi and Patton in contributing to the jolting nature of Africa' s jolting literature.
		Gordimer confronts the "liberal" white view and the fl servant view all in one story, and at the end leaves the reader on the cusp of a life-changing choice.
		Gordimer indulges her sense of adventure - and challenges the reader - this is a stroke of pure genius - and firmly re-establishes Ms.
	www.amazon.ca /Julys-People-Nadine-Gordimer/dp/0670410489 (1236 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gordimer was born at Springs near Johannesburg in November 1923, the daughter of immigrants: her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Lithuanian Jew, and her mother, Nan Myers, was born in England.
		Critics have made much of one event in Gordimer's childhood: the invention, by her mother, of a heart condition which restricted Gordimer's childhood activities, and which forced her to turn to books for diversion and self-definition.
		As this overview implies, Gordimer's work betrays the conviction that there is a close relationship between a writer's creativity and the social context in which he or she operates.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1809 (628 words)

	The Connection.org : Nadine Gordimer
		Nadine Gordimer is a long-time member of the African National Congress, and is a close friend of Nelson Mandela's.
		Today, Gordimer has turned her activist's energy to the growing AIDS epidemic, but still she writes in words she considers the most powerful, words of fiction.
		Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning, South African writer, author of numerous short stories and novels including "The Conservationist,"; "July's People," and "The House Gun" and editor of the recent anthology of short stories, "Telling Tales."
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2004/12/20041203_b_main.asp (193 words)

	Nadine Gordimer - Celebrity Atheist List (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NADINE Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for literature, was born and brought up in South Africa.
		She was born, in 1923, in the small gold-mining town of Springs, about 30 miles east of Johannes- burg, the youngest of two daughters of Isidore Gordimer, a Jewish-Lithuanian emigrant.
		Gordimer, an atheist, states that her father was a "mystery" to her.
	www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Nadine_Gordimer (204 words)

	PEN American Center - Nadine Gordimer
		Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa, on November 20, 1923.
		Gordimer has lived in South Africa all her life, with frequent world travels.
		She is vice-president of International PEN, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, Order of the Southern Cross in South Africa, and Order of the Presidential Medal of Honor in Chile.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1051 (159 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pickup: Books: Nadine Gordimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer's trenchant fiction has always achieved universal relevance in capturing apartheid and its lingering effects in South Africa, this new work attains still broader impact as she explores the condition of the world's desperate dispossessed.
		To Julie Summer, rebellious daughter of a rich white investment banker, the fl mechanic she meets at a garage is initially merely an interesting person to add to her circle of bohemian friends.
		Nadine Gordimer, Nigel Ackroyd Summers, The Suburbs, Nadine Gordinier, Cape Town, Ibrahim ibn Musa, Nadine Gordiiner, Nadine Gorditner, Nadine Gordinter, Nadine Gordirner, New York
	www.amazon.com /Pickup-Nadine-Gordimer/dp/0142001422 (1961 words)

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