Nadine Gordimer: Quick Facts


Facts

Born November 20, 1923 • Springs • South Africa • (Birthday in 7 days)
Died July 13, 2014 (aged 90) • Johannesburg • South Africa
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1991) • Booker Prize (1974)
Notable Works “Burger’s Daughter” • “Face to Face” • “Get a Life” • “July’s People” • “No Time like the Present” • “The Conservationist” • “The Lying Days”

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J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
South African author
V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Canadian author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
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Doris Lessing
British writer
Sir William Golding
William Golding
English novelist
Alan Paton
Alan Paton
South African writer
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Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
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Alex La Guma
South African writer
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Herman Charles Bosman
South African author
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Richard Rive
South African author
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Jack Cope
South African writer
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Dan Jacobson
South African-born novelist and short-story writer
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Bessie Emery Head
South African novelist
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Stuart Cloete
South African writer
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic