Gordimer, Nadine
Nadine Gordimer, geboren 1923 in dem Minenstädtchen Springs, Transvaal, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Erzählerinnen unserer Zeit. Jahrzehntelang schrieb sie gegen das Apartheidregime an und setzt sich bis heute mit dessen zerstörerischen Folgen für die schwarze und weiße Bevölkerung auseinander. 1991 wurde ihr der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. Sie starb am 13. Juli 2014 in Johannesburg, Südafrika.
Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story, The Pickup and, most recently, No Time Like the Present. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.