Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimerwas a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1923
country thinking citizens
I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
contempt humans ifs
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
diplomats france england
Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
believe party people
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
thinking people joy
About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
people feels
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
limits life-span
Music has no limits of a life-span.
genius censorship fragments
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
art celebration defeat
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
writing character thinking
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
love-is tragedy way
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
single-life way fiction
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
evil good-and-evil cases
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
lasts communist optimist
Communists are the last optimists.