Gordimer, Nadine
Gordimer, Nadine ( 1923 – ),South African novelist and short story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 . Most of her work is concerned with the political situation in her native land; her protests against apartheid and censorship were outspoken. Her collections of stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent ( 1953 ), Friday's Footprint ( 1960 ), Livingstone's Companions ( 1972 ), and Jump ( 1991 ); her novels include A Guest of Honour ( 1970 ), in which an English colonial administrator returns to the complexities of a newly independent African country from which he had been previously expelled for his sympathies with the black population; The Conservationist ( 1974 , joint winner of the Booker Prize ); Burger's Daughter ( 1979 ), which describes the personal and political heritage of Rosa Burger , whose communist father had died in prison; and...
[The entire page is 249 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
