Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923, in Springs, South Africa (Encyclopedia Britannica). Being from South Africa was a large aspect of her identity and went on to influence and be the backdrop of her work as an author of short stories and novels (“The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991” ). Because of the…

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs, South Africa. Her parents were Jewish immigrants to South Africa, her mom was originally from England while her father was from Latvia. Gordimer grew up a part of the middle class and was exposed to literature at a young age. She started to write when…