bibliography
NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine GordimerBorn: 20-Nov-1923
Birthplace: Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
Died: 13-Jul-2014
Location of death: Johannesburg, South Africa
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: South Africa
Executive summary: South African novelist

Father: Isidore Gordimer
Mother: Nan Myers
Husband: G. Gavran (m. 1949)
Husband: Reinhold Cassirer (art dealer, m. 1954, d. 2001, two children)

    High School: Our Lady of Mercy Convent, Springs, South Africa
    University: Witwatersrand University (dropped out)

    Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1975 for The Conversationalist
    Nobel Prize for Literature 1991
    International PEN
    Jewish Ancestry

Author of books:
The Lying Days (1953, novel)
A World of Strangers (1958, novel)
Occasion for Loving (1963, novel)
The Late Bourgeois World (1966, novel)
A Guest of Honour (1970, novel)
The Conservationist (1974, novel)
Burger's Daughter (1979, novel)
July's People (1981, novel)
A Sport of Nature (1987, novel)
My Son's Story (1990, novel)
None to Accompany Me (1994, novel)
The House Gun (1998, novel)
The Pickup (2001, novel)
Loot and Other Stories (2003, short stories)


New!
NNDB MAPPER
Create a map starting with Nadine Gordimer
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications