Penilaian: 0 dari 5 bintang
0 penilaian
Memuat
author
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a small South African town. Her first book, a collection of stories, was published whe...lihat lebih banyakNadine Gordimer (1923-2014), the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a small South African town. Her first book, a collection of stories, was published when she was in her early twenties. Her ten books of stories include Something Out There (1984), and Jump and Other Stories (1991). Her novels include The Lying Days (1953), A World of Strangers (1958), Occasion for Loving (1963), The Late Bourgeois World (1966), A Guest of Honour (1971), The Conservationist (1975), Burger's Daughter (1979), July's People (1981), A Sport of Nature (1987), My Son's Story (1990), None to Accompany Me (1994), The House Gun (1998), The Pickup (2001), Get a Life (2005), and No Time Like the Present (2012). A World of Strangers, The Late Bourgeois World, and Burger's Daughter were originally banned in South Africa. She published three books of literary and political essays: The Essential Gesture (1988); Writing and Being (1995), the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures she gave at Harvard in 1994; and Living in Hope and History (1999).
Ms. Gordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and an honorary member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a Commandeur de'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). She held fourteen honorary degrees from universities including Harvard, Yale, Smith College, the New School for Social Research, City College of New York, the University of Leuven in Belgium, Oxford University, and Cambridge University.
Ms. Gordimer won numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist, both internationally and in South Africa.lihat lebih sedikit
Buku oleh Nadine Gordimer
The Radetzky March The Pickup: A Novel Penilaian: 4 dari 5 bintang4/5Jump and Other Stories Penilaian: 3 dari 5 bintang3/5None to Accompany Me: A Novel Penilaian: 3 dari 5 bintang3/5No Time Like the Present: A Novel Penilaian: 3 dari 5 bintang3/5The House Gun: A Novel Penilaian: 4 dari 5 bintang4/5My Son's Story: A Novel Penilaian: 5 dari 5 bintang5/5Get a Life: A Novel Penilaian: 3 dari 5 bintang3/5