1923 - 2014
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadine Gordimer has received more than 1,082,368 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Nadine Gordimer is the 497th most popular writer (down from 359th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Writer.
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer who is most famous for her novels and short stories about the effects of apartheid on individuals.
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Among writers, Nadine Gordimer ranks 497 out of 5,755. Before her are Kurt Vonnegut, Milena Jesenská, Robert Walser, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and John le Carré. After her are Beatrix Potter, Francesca da Rimini, Jean Paul, Al-Maʿarri, Allen Ginsberg, and Saul Bellow.
1922 - 2007
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 491
1896 - 1944
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 492
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 493
1394 - 1465
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 494
1896 - 1957
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 495
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 496
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 497
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 498
1259 - 1285
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 499
1763 - 1825
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 500
973 - 1057
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 501
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 502
1915 - 2005
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 503
Among people born in 1923, Nadine Gordimer ranks 22. Before her are Carroll Shelby, György Ligeti, Richard Attenborough, Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Shepard, and Mas Oyama. After her are Roy Lichtenstein, Yma Sumac, Jack Kilby, Val Logsdon Fitch, Anne Baxter, and Arvid Carlsson. Among people deceased in 2014, Nadine Gordimer ranks 21. Before her are Jacques Le Goff, Harold Ramis, Richard Attenborough, Alexander Grothendieck, Paco de Lucía, and Lauren Bacall. After her are Richard Kiel, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Gary Becker, Alain Resnais, Virna Lisi, and Louis Zamperini.
1923 - 2012
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 18
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 19
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 20
1923 - 1994
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 21
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 22
1923 - 1997
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 23
1923 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 24
1923 - 2005
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 25
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 26
1923 - 1985
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 27
1923 - 2018
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 28
1924 - 2014
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 15
1944 - 2014
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 16
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 17
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 18
1947 - 2014
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 19
1924 - 2014
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 20
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 21
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1928 - 2014
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 23
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1922 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1936 - 2014
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 26
1917 - 2014
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 27
Among people born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 10 out of 374. Before her are Sarah Baartman (1788), Desmond Tutu (1931), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Shaka (1787), Christiaan Barnard (1922), and F. W. de Klerk (1936). After her are Miriam Makeba (1932), Charlize Theron (1975), Jacob Zuma (1942), Max Theiler (1899), Thabo Mbeki (1942), and Paul Kruger (1825).
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 4
1931 - 2021
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 6
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 7
1922 - 2001
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 8
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 9
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 11
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 12
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 13
1899 - 1972
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 14
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 15
1825 - 1904
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 16
Among writers born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 3. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and J. M. Coetzee (1940). After her are Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 3
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 4
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 5
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 6
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 7
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 8
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 10
1903 - 1988
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 11
1933 - 1965
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 12