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
jobs divorce men
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really shape them...but a long slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative...
fall writing way
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
eye mind sahara
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
people horror newspapers
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
law white judging
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
struggle black-and-white identity
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
writing views way
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
character keys stories
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
beauty moral
There's no tiling moral about beauty.
new-york writing sky
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
birthday people giving
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
power men enemy-of-progress
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
book batteries needs
Books dont need batteries
zoos eagles prison
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.