Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Gauteng, South Africa on November 20th, 1923 and is the Novelist. At the age of 90, Nadine Gordimer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gordimer studied for a year at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she mixed for the first time with fellow professionals across the colour bar. She also became involved in the Sophiatown renaissance. She did not complete her degree, but moved to Johannesburg in 1948, where she lived thereafter. While taking classes in Johannesburg, she continued to write, publishing mostly in local South African magazines. She collected many of these early stories in Face to Face, published in 1949.
In 1951, the New Yorker accepted Gordimer's story "A Watcher of the Dead", beginning a long relationship, and bringing Gordimer's work to a much larger public. Gordimer, who said she believed the short story was the literary form for our age, continued to publish short stories in the New Yorker and other prominent literary journals. Her first publisher, Lulu Friedman, was the wife of the Parliamentarian Bernard Friedman, and it was at their house, "Tall Trees" in First Avenue, Lower Houghton, Johannesburg, that Gordimer met other anti-apartheid writers.
Gordimer's first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953.
- W. H. Smith Commonwealth Literary Award for Friday's Footprint (1961)
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for A Guest of Honour (1972)
- Booker Prize for The Conservationist (1974)
- Central News Agency Literary Award for The Conservationist (1974)
- Grand Aigle d'Or (France) (1975)
- Orange Prize shortlist; she declined
- Central News Agency Literary Award for Burger's Daughter (1979)
- Central News Agency Literary Award for July's People (1981)
- Scottish Arts Council Neil M. Gunn Fellowship (1981)
- Modern Language Association Honorary Fellow (1984)
- Rome Prize (1984)
- Premio Malaparte (Italy) (1985)
- Nelly Sachs Prize (Germany) (1985)
- Bennett Award (United States) (1987)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for A Sport of Nature (1988)
- Inducted as an honorary member into Phi Beta Kappa (1988)
- Central News Agency Literary Award for My Son's Story (1990)
- Nobel Prize for Literature (1991)
- International Botev Prize Laureate (1996)
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book from Africa for The Pickup (2002)
- Booker Prize longlist for The Pickup (2001)
- Officier of the Legion of Honour (2007)
- American Philosophical Society, Member (2008)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Honorary Member (1979)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Member (1980)
- Royal Society of Literature, Fellow
- Congress of South African Writers, Patron
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Commander
- 15 honorary degrees
- Senior Fellow, Massey College of the University of Toronto
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Archbishop Desmond Tutu at an awards ceremony at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa (2009)
- Order of the Aztec Eagle