WRITER

Nadine Gordimer

1923 - 2014

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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 1,100,384 page views. Her biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Nadine Gordimer is the 426th most popular writer (up from 496th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 10th 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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  • 1.1M

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  • 68.01

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  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.36

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  • 5.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The late bourgeois world
1966
The conservationist
1974
Something out there
Fiction
A collection of nine stories and one novella explore the secret and collusive codes by which people live together
19844 / 5
July's people
1981
The lying days
Family life
19535 / 5
A soldier's embrace
Fiction
Collects twelve short stories of the talented South African writer, many originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Harper's and including the celebrated "Town and Country Lovers"
1980

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nadine Gordimer ranks 426 out of 7,302. Before her are Arion, Sholem Aleichem, Lactantius, Constantine P. Cavafy, Seneca the Elder, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. After her are Vladimir Vysotsky, Philip Roth, William of Rubruck, Phaedrus, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Frank Herbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Nadine Gordimer ranks 16. Before her are Charlton Heston, Italo Calvino, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Irma Grese, and Marcel Marceau. After her are Mas Oyama, György Ligeti, Val Logsdon Fitch, Roy Lichtenstein, Carroll Shelby, and Franco Zeffirelli. Among people deceased in 2014, Nadine Gordimer ranks 15. Before her are Joe Cocker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Eli Wallach, Gough Whitlam, Hiroo Onoda, and Alexander Grothendieck. After her are Maximilian Schell, Jacques Le Goff, Paco de Lucía, Lauren Bacall, Shirley Temple, and Virna Lisi.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 8 out of 454. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Elon Musk (1971), Miriam Makeba (1932), Sarah Baartman (1788), J. M. Coetzee (1940), and F. W. de Klerk (1936). After her are Shaka (1787), Desmond Tutu (1931), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Max Theiler (1899), and Charlize Theron (1975).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

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), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Alan Paton (1903).

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