Gordimer

American  

[gawr-duh-mer] / ˈgɔr də mər /

noun

1. Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.

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Gordimer British  

/ ˈɡɔːdɪmə /

noun

1. Nadine. born 1923, South African novelist. Her books include The Lying Days (1952), The Conservationist (1974), which won the Booker prize, None to Accompany Me (1994), and The House Gun (1998). Her works were banned in South Africa for their condemnation of apartheid. Nobel prize for literature 1991

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Example Sentences

He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer and J.M.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

No fewer than 15 writers whose works were published by Mr. Maschler, from García Márquez to Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa and V.S.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2020

She was “trying to write other people’s books in other people’s voices”; Bertolt Brecht inspired one, Nadine Gordimer another, “but in all of them I was faking it in every sentence”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019

Nadine Gordimer writes in one of her novels something to the effect of “Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018

I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela