Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was 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".Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.
Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction
Nominations
The Best of the Booker, Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Movies
The House Gun, Regarding Susan Sontag
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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Television and newspapers show peoples' lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed within this higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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I shall never write an autobiography. I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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People give one another things that can't be gift-wrapped.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Responsibility is what waits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Fact
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Won the Booker Prize in 1974.
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Was robbed by three men in her home in Johannesburg (26 October 2006).
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Author of successful novels such as "The Lying Day" (1953), "The Conservationist" (1974) or "The Pickup" (2001). Most of her books deal with the political and moral situation in her home country South Africa.
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Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 180-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Allen Boesak: Choosing for Justice
1984
Documentary short
City Lovers
1982
story
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants
1982
TV Movie short story
Praise
1982
TV Movie screenplay
The Gordimer Stories
1982
story "Six Feet of the Country" / story and screenplay "Country Lovers"
A Chip of Glass Ruby
1981
story and screenplay
Dilemma
1962/II
novel ""A World of Strangers"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sarahsarà
1994
advisor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
2014
Documentary
Herself
21 Icons
2014
TV Series documentary
Regarding Susan Sontag
2014
Documentary
Herself
Efter Tio
2010
TV Series
Herself
Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
2009
Documentary
Herself
Life and Times
2004
TV Series documentary
Herself
Droit d'auteurs
2002
TV Series
Herself
Visionen zum Millennium
1999
TV Series documentary
Herself
Gensyn med Johannesburg
1996
Documentary
Herself
Charlie Rose
1994
TV Series
Herself - Guest
Beyond Hate
1991
Video documentary
Herself
The Lively Arts
1976
TV Series documentary
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1991
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize
"who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great ... More
Known for movies
The Gordimer Stories (1982) as Writer
Dilemma (1962) as Writer
City Lovers (1982) as Writer
Allen Boesak: Choosing for Justice (1984) as Writer
$1.9 Million
