Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine Gordimer


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Nadine Gordimer (GOHR-dih-muhr) is a prolific writer and one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers of short stories. Her first collection of stories, Face to Face (1949), was published in Johannesburg by Silver Leaf Books. Her first story published in The New Yorker, where most of her stories have initially appeared, was “A Watcher of the Dead” (June 9, 1951). Gordimer’s first collection of stories to be published in the United States was The Soft Voice of the Serpent, and Other Stories (1952). This collection was...

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