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

Galgut is the third writer from South Africa to win the Booker, following Nadine Gordimer and Coetzee, who has won twice.

From New York Times

Itchiness about Beethoven’s cultural dominance would continue to bring classical music out in occasional hives, and in 2007 Nadine Gordimer published a collection of short stories called Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black.

From The Guardian

In others, conversely, I can see the author but not the title: something by Carl Hiaasen, something by Wally Lamb, something by Nadine Gordimer, something by Gore Vidal.

From The New Yorker

She naively suggested the New Yorker, where she was reading Gordimer and Munro.

From The Guardian