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Nadine Gordimer talks about her childhood in South Africa, how she became aware of the racisme around her... (N. Gordimer, Interview)
It took the realization that the colour bar - I use that old, concrete image of racisme - was like the gate of the law in Kafka's parable, which was closed to the supplicant throughout his life - because he didn't understand that only he could open it... (N. Gordimer, Banquet Sp.)
Most of Nadine Gordimer's work deals with the moral and psychological tensions of her radically divided home country. She was a founding member of congress of South African Writers, and even at the height of the apartheid regime, she never considered going into exile... - Gordimer's Burgers Daughter (1979) was banned after the Soweto uprising, Andre Brink's Looking on Darkness (1974) was banned by the authorities - all 3 are among the best-known white South African writers... - Feelings of exile and alienation pervade her novels and short-story collections, such as the Soft Voice of the Serpent (1956) and Not For Publication (1960)... - She has always tried to preserve her privacy, but international fame and her role as a lifelong defender of free speech in a police state have forced her into the public arena... (BBC 4, D.L.)
Gordimer's Nobel Prize put the searchlight on a country in painful transition from an oppressive racism to a turbulent democracy... (P. Wästberg)
For Gordimer, the novel and the short story are instruments to penetrate a society that defends itself against scrutiny, hides in censorship and hypocrisy, refuses to recognize its history, and thus produces a grammar of lies where capitalism, liberalism, and Marxism mean the same thing: an onslaught on the volk. She enters people's most intimate regions to show how private life is violated by informers and race registers. To write from within the personal sphere and make it public is the contrary to the police method of crashing into houses to confiscate letters and diaries, an act the teenaged Gordimer herself witnessed when police raided a servant's room in her family's house... - For hardly anyone has so vividly alerted the world to how apartheid undermined relations between people and made innocence criminal... - But the present stems from the past, and apartheid's contempt for human life now expresses itself in street killings, gang massacres, and armed robbery... (Nadine Gordimer)
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".
Notable works: The Conservationist; Burger's ...
Genre: Novels, dramatic plays
Notable awards: Booker Prize; 1974; Nobel Pri...
Period: Apartheid-era South Africa
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