Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
Background
- Born in
- Springs
- Educated at
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Booker Prize🏆 James Tait Black Memorial Prize🏆 Nelly Sachs Prize🏆 Central News Agency Literary Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"What we had to do to find the world was to enter our own world fully, first. We had to enter through the tragedy of our own particular place. If the Nobel awards have a special meaning, it is that the…"
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied that the Pr…"
"The writer in relation to the nature of perceivable reality and what is beyond — imperceivable reality — is the basis for all these studies, no matter what resulting concepts are labelled, and no matt…"
"Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life."
"I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writ…"
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Timeline
1923
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Died
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