Biography

Born in 1923 to white Jewish settlers, Nadine Gordimer grew up in Springs, a small mining town in the Transvaal. A committed radical and ANC supporter, she saw three of her novels banned by the Apartheid regime. One of South Africa's most celebrated writers, her work is uncompromisingly polemical. Her many novels include The Conservationist (joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974), July's People, My Son's Story, and None to Accompany Me. Her collections of short stories include Something Out There and Jump. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.