Nadine Gordimer

The fifth annual M&G Literary Festival will be held at the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg, on Saturday August 30 and Sunday August...

Writers belong to all humankind, and so the world has joined South Africa to mourn the passing of Nadine Gordimer. Yet there has been something...

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, delivered in 1957, Albert Camus said: "The writer's role is not free from difficult duties. By definition he...

These things happen; they just do. Just the other day some of us so-called "literary comrades" were reflecting that, since the year 2013 – and to...

Nadine Gordimer and I met through the Congress of South African Writers in 1988 – round about the time when I joined. I would perform at quite a...

"It was ugly," wrote Nadine Gordimer in 1973, making no apology for the brutalised landscapes she grew up in and called home for nine decades.

Nadine Gordimer gave expression for so many decades to the textures of South African experience and the currents of our history that it is...

It started on a Thursday midday, when the organiser of the Weekly Mail Book Week put down the phone, walked across the newsroom and interrupted me...

"Let me be forgotten." Nadine Gordimer gave this reply in a Guardian Q&A two years ago when asked how she would like to be remembered. This...

I first met Nadine in 1959 or 1960, probably. On one occasion, I had just been reading The Classic magazine, founded by Nat Nakasa, and...

In a 2003 piece, collected in Telling Times: Writing and Living 1950-2008 (Bloomsbury), Nadine Gordimer wondered about "the questions...

Nadine and Ngugi arrested in Amherst! No, no, it was not the case, but that's how my wife, Njeeri, imagined the headlines in Kenya and South Africa...