Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born into a well-off family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923.
From her early childhood Gordimer witnessed how the white minority increasingly weakened the rights of the black majority. Gordimer was educated in a convent school and began writing at the young age of nine. Her first short story was published at the age of fifteen. .
A fine descriptive writer, thoughtful and sensitive, Gordimer is noted for the vivid precision of her writing about the complicated personal and social relationships in her environment related to the apartheid laws*.
Finally, in 1991 she was awarded Nobel Prize* for Literature. She was the first South African to win the award and the first woman to win in 25 years, not to mention the fact that her books and short stories have been published in forty languages.
Famous Quotes by Nadine Gordimer :
‘Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life,’ Gordimer has said.
´ I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that’
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/55397.Nadine_Gordimer
Sources and Further Reading :
*The Apartheid Laws - http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blsalaws.htm
*Nobel Prize-
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/gordimer.html
Nadine Gordimer Talks About Earning Her Identity as an African
http://penguin.book.co.za/blog/2010/11/08/nadine-gordimer-talks-about-earning-her-identity-as-an-african
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/pickup.html
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4364/Gordimer-Nadine.html
