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BIOGRAPHY
Nadine Gordimer, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Springs, Transvaal, in South Africa. She was the daughter of white middle-class Jewish parents. Her father was a jeweller from Lithuania, and her mother was from England. She was educated at the Convent of our Lady of Mercy in Springs and studied for one year at the University of Witwatersrand.
Writing from the age of nine, her first short story was published when she was 16. She became widely known with THE SOFT VOICE OF THE SERPENT AND OTHER STORIES. Her work is generally concerned with the effects of Apartheid, and her novel BURGER'S DAUGHTER was banned in South Africa. She was the first South African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gordimer currently lives with her husband, Reinhold Cassierer, in Johannesburg.
CHRONOLOGY
1923 She was born in Springs, Transvaal, in South Africa. (November 20)
1948 She moved to Johannesburg.
1952 THE SOFT VOICE OF THE SERPENT
1953 THE LYING DAYS
1954 She married Reinhold Cassirer.
1956 SIX FEET OF THE COUNTRY
1958 A WORLD OF STRANGERS
1960 FRIDAY'S FOOTPRINT
1963 OCCASION FOR LOVING
1965 NOT FOR PUBLICATION
1966 THE LATE BOURGEOIS WORLD
1970 A GUEST OF HONOUR
1971 LIVINGSTONE'S COMPANIONS
1974 She won the Booker Prize.
1975 THE CONSERVATIONIST
1976 SELECTED STORIES, SOME MONDAY FOR SURE
1979 BURGER'S DAUGHTER
1980 A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE
1981 JULY'S PEOPLE
1984 SOMETHING OUT THERE
1987 A SPORT OF NATURE
1988 THE ESSENTIAL GESTURE: WRITING, POLITICS & PLACES
1991 MY SON'S STORY; She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1992 JUMP
1994 NONE TO ACCOMPANY ME
1995 WRITING AND BEING: THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES
1998 THE HOUSE GUN
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