Nadine Gordimer
South African novelist and short-story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her work bore witness to and fiercely opposed apartheid in South Africa. She is one of the great political novelists of the twentieth century.
Works
- July's PeopleBlack family shelters white family during apartheid South Africa's collapse
- Burger's DaughterWoman reckons with her father's anti-apartheid activism and its costs
- The ConservationistMan's environmental obsession masks indifference to racial violence around him
- My Son's StoryFather's double life as resistance fighter destroys his son's innocence
- The House GunFamily torn apart when son imprisoned for crime amid South African violence