Special Commissioned Entry on Nadine Gordimer, Judith Newman - About Nadine Gordimer
ABOUT NADINE GORDIMER
Born: 20 November 1923, in Springs, South Africa.
Married: Gerald Gavronsky, 1949 (divorced 1952); Reinhold Cassirer, 1954.
Education: Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Springs; private tutors; University of the Witwatersrand, 1945–46.
When Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 she also achieved the unimaginable: getting the African National Congress (ANC, the left-wing opposition led by Nelson Mandela) and the South African government to agree. Both Prime Minister F. W. de Klerk and the ANC issued official statements congratulating her. De Klerk claimed the prize as also an honor for South Africa and described Gordimer as one of his countrymen. Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared himself “over the moon for Nadine,” while André Brink, her fellow South African novelist, saw the prize as “the...
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