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Writing and Being

Writing and Being( )
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
Series title:The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
ISBN:978-0-674-96233-0
Publication Date:Oct 1996
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $10.95
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Book Details
Pages:158
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.513 x 8.814 x 0.156 Inches
Book Weight:0.458 Pounds
Author Biography
Gordimer, Nadine (Author)
Nadine Gordimer was born in Gauteng, South Africa on November 20, 1923. She attended the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for one year. She is a novelist and short-story writer whose major theme is exile and alienation. Her first short story collection, The Soft Voice of the Serpent, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. Her other short story collections include Jump, Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972, and Loot. Her other novels include A World of Strangers, A Guest of Honour, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me, The Pickup, and Get a Life. She has received numerous awards including the Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, and the French Legion of Honour in 2007. She died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 90.

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