Nadine Gordimer

Culture circus

Nadine Gordimer, 85, hurries into the waiting space of the business centre at Oberoi Grand, as much as is possible for her to. “Gardiner” with Pranab Mukherjee and (below) the author on the dais with Gopalkrishna Gandhi In...

Obama's victory marks end of racism: S.African Nobel laureate

Kolkata, Nov. 11 (ANI):South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has hailed US President-elect Barack Obama's victory as an end of racism. Gordimer, 84, is in India to deliver the second Nobel laureate lecture, an initiative...

Sorcha Gunne

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Biography Before coming to Warwick I completed a BA (first class honours) in English Literature and Anthropology and an MA (first class honours) in English Literature...

'White Tiger' wonderful, but too determined to shock: Gordimer

Mumbai (PTI): Arvind Adiga's ' The White Tiger' is a wonderful novel, but it seems to be planned to shock its readers, said South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. Gordimer, a Booker winner herself, was...

For the love of Gordimer

Someone asked me today, who is Nadine Gordimer? Generally, I flounder when asked these questions because it seems so inadequate to say just “author” for people like her. Today, however, I was well prepared because I’d spent a...

For the love of Gordimer

Someone asked me today, who is Nadine Gordimer? Generally, I flounder when asked these questions because it seems so inadequate to say just “author” for people like her. Today, however, I was well prepared because I’d spent a...

The view from the top

The Anatomist: the Autobiography of Anthony SampsonPolitico's, 416pp, £19.99 Soon after Anthony Sampson had come down from Oxford in 1951, one of his friends from there, the young South African millionaire Jim Bailey, offered...

Novelists rally to Kundera's defence

Prestigious writers issue statement defending Milan Kundera against charges of betraying dissident 'Orchestrated campaign of calumny' ... Milan Kundera. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Authors including Philip Roth, Salman Rushie...

Laureates back Kundera

Nobel Prize winners for literature have joined seven other distinguished writers in issuing a statement of support for the Czech-born author Milan Kundera, who has been accused of informing for the communist secret police when...

Take it easy, but take it

The voice that permeated my childhood was not that of Fred Rogers, Winnie the Pooh or Charlie Brown. It was Studs Terkel's. My mother was – and remains – a fan of WFMT, Chicago’s classical music station from which his interview...

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