Nadine Gordimer charts South Africa’s journey into an uncertain landscape in her new novel. We publish two extracts from the novel.
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/ 21 November 2011
The ANC’s chief whip says the National Press Club’s Black Wednesday plan for this week’s vote on the secrecy Bill are a senseless distortion of facts
Nadine Gordimer joined William Kentridge and Mark Gevisser last week for a discussion on memory and creativity. Read her full speech here.
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/ 17 September 2010
Writer Nadine Gordimer is fighting again, this time against government’s plans to muzzle the media. She tells <b>Stephen Moss</b> why.
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/ 1 September 2010
Twenty years after helping defeat apartheid, the eminent writer is fighting government plans to muzzle South Africa’s media.
Jeopardising the freedom of writers will endanger the freedom of every reader in South Africa, renowned authors said on Friday.
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has mounted a passionate defence of the printed book against the onslaught of technology.
A tapeworm, a cockroach and the famous dead are among the characters in Nadine Gordimer’s <i>Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black</i>.
Dozens of prominent South Africans have signed a statement condemning a racist video that surfaced at the University of the Free State (UFS) last month. The list of 81 signatories includes renowned authors Nadine Gordimer and Andre Brink, journalists John Perlman and Max du Preez, retired judge Arthur Chaskalson and cartoonist Zapiro.
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/ 13 November 2007
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old democracies have long been shaped. South Africa too has a rich history of political fiction, from Alan Paton to Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, Njabulo Ndebele and Lewis Nkosi. But there is, of course, a vast difference between the literary political novel and the "novel of politics", writes Marianne Thamm.
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/ 26 October 2007
The killing of South African reggae star Lucky Dube in a botched hijacking in Johannesburg last week has taken outrage over crime in the country to new levels. Now prisoners serving time for violent crime have added their voices to the slew of politicians, artists and fans who have condemned his death.
Shaun de Waal on non-fiction that examines South African senses of space.
Darryl Accone examines the culture and commercial imperatives of book awards