Nadine Gordimer   Nadine Gordimer is one of best-known and beloved authors from South Africa. Her work is highly respected - in 1991, she won the Nobel prize for, and has won many other awards (Booker prizes as well) for her works Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a small mining town near Johannesburg in South Africa. Her parents were Jewish immigrants - her father, a jeweler, came from Lithuania and her mother from England. She was schooled in a convent, then completed her studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The early years: a timeline: 1932: Nadine starts to write at the age of 9. 1939: Her first short story is published in a South African magazine 1949: "Face to Face", a collection of short stories is published. 1953: "The Lying Days", her first novel She currently lives in Johannesburg with her husband Reinhold Cassiere, a businessman. Between them, they have three children - a son together and a daughter from previous marriages. A list of her works: Short Stories and Collections: Writing and Being: Harvard Lectures Crimes of Conscience (African Writers Series) Six Feet of the Country 1956 Selected Stones 1975 Jump and Other Stories A Soldier's Embrace 1980 Something Out There 1984 Not for Publication 1965 Livingstone's Companions 1971 Face to Face1949 The Soft Voice of the Serpent 1952 Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century Novels: The Pickup (Booker Prize Longlist 2001) The House Gun - 1998 None to Accompany Me - 1994 My Son's Story - 1990 A Sport of Nature - 1987 July's People - 1981 Burger's Daughter - 1979 The Conservationist Booker Prize Winner - 1974 A Guest of Honour - 1970 (James Tait Black Memorial Award 1971) The Late Bourgeois World - 1966 Occasion for Loving - 1963 Friday's Footprint - 1960 (WHSmith Literary Award 1961) A World of Strangers - 1958 The Lying Days, Nadine Gordimer's first novel - 1953 Conversations With Nadine Gordimer (Literary Conversations Series) An excerpt from http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/gordimer.html "Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) has made her career under difficult circumstances. Born an English-speaking Jew in South Africa, she resented and resisted the pressure to conform to the white supremacist attitudes embodied in the system of apartheid. She has been politically active most of her life, and has often written about the relationships among white radicals, liberals, and blacks in South Africa. Her most widely-read works are novels like The Conservationist (1974) and Burger's Daughter (1979); but many people believe her finest writing to be contained in her short stories. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although she is one of the most distinguished of modern women writers, she has resisted being classed as a feminist." Links: http://www.literature-awards.com/nobelprize_winners/nadine_gordimer.htm A bio from the Nobel e-musuem http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gordimer.htm