Nadine Gordimer foi uma escritora sul-africana. É autora de mais de 30 livros, na sua maioria crônicas sobre a deterioração social que afetou a África do Sul durante o regime do apartheid. Desde o romance de estreia, The Lying Days , até The Conservationist , obra com que foi vencedora do Prêmio Man Booker, dedicou-se a dramatizar as difíceis escolhas morais surgidas numa sociedade marcada pela segregação racial.
Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1991 e, mais recentemente, a Legião da Honra, na França. Continua a explorar os problemas que assolam o país em livros como O engate e Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories .
A escritora foi uma das mais importantes vozes contra o apartheid na África do Sul e, a maior parte dos seus mais de 30 livros, foi focada na situação social do país durante esse período.
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“A poesia é ao mesmo tempo um esconderijo e um altofalante.”
poetry being both a "hiding place and loud speaker"
Nadine Gordimer, como citada por Jean-Pierre Richard in: " Atrophied literature: 50 years of South African literature as filtered by French publishers http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=5684", 01/05/2003
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (1985) ed. Sterling McMurrin
“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner
“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
"'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer" by Karen Lazar, Salmagundi 113 (Winter 1997)
Writing and Being (1991)
"Great Problems in the Street," in I Will Still Be Moved (1963) ed. by Marion Friedmann
Writing and Being (1991)
“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner http://web.archive.org/web/20000302013506/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_09int.html
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
Writing and Being (1991)
“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
Rosa Burger in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 130
As quoted at ContemporaryWriters.com http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618
Writing and Being (1991)
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
"The Essential Gesture" (12 October 1984)
“We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.”
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
Writing and Being (1991)
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
