Nadine Gordimer is the author
of fourteen novels, including The Lying Days (her first novel),
The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport
of Nature, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me, The House Gunand
(in 2001) The Pickup. Among her collections of short
stories are A Soldier's Embrace, Something Out There, Selected
Stories, Jump and Loot, published in June 2003. A collection
of essays, Living in Hope and History, was published in 1999.
Educated in South Africa, she has
been made an honorary fellow at Universities including Harvard,
Yale and Leuven, and she was awarded an Honorary Degree from Oxford
University in 1994. She lives in Johannesburg. In 1991 she was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among her other numerous
literary awards are the MLA, the Malaparte Prize
from Italy, the Nelly Sachs Prize from Germany, the Scottish
Arts Council's Neil Gunn Fellowship, the French International
award, the Grand Aigle d'Or, the Benson medal from the
Royal Society of Literature, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,
the Booker Prize (1974 joint winner), the CNA Literary
Award, National Arts Club Medal, the Primo Levi
Award, the Mary McCarthy Award and the Bavarian
State Premier's Honorary Award (part of the Corine International
Book Prize). She is also Vice President of International Pen. |
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