The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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...
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