Gordimer
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- proper noun
- Ettin particularly considers issues of betrayal, the politics of the family, the concept of home and homeland, and problems of ethnicity and femininity in Gordimer's fiction.
- Nadine Gordimer
Examples
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For me, those stories have frequently been about human drama in actual places—Melville's Pacific, Faulkner's Mississippi, Saigyo's Honshu, Gordimer's Johannesburg.
Academic text (2009) -
Gordimer is the author, most recently, of the novel None to Accompany Me.
Fiction book (1995) -
Among the literary texts considered is Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter.
Academic text (1991) -
By NADINE GORDIMER Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 and is the author of 14 novels, nine volumes of short stories, and three nonfiction collections.
Academic text (2011) -
Nadine Gordimer's work uses insects swarming, singing, and dying as a motif for multitudes inhabiting a harsh historical landscape.
Academic text (2018) -
One further thing I have always admired is Nadine Gordimer's take on the apartheid system that existed in South Africa, and I am paraphrasing: "Any system that enslaves one group of people enslaves all groups of people."
Blog text (7) -
After Nadine Gordimer objected to Roberts' No Cold Kitchen, her authorized bio, Farrar Straus & Giroux in America and Bloomsbury in England refused to publish it.
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Nadine Gordimer, a prominent South African writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
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In her works, Gordimer explores the complex effects of apartheid on society.
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Gordimer's novels often depict the struggles against racial injustice in South Africa.
Synonyms
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A South African writer known for novels and short stories about life under apartheid
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gordimer is the family name of Nadine Gordimer, a South African novelist and short-story writer famous for books about life under apartheid. So when you see Gordimer, it usually refers to that author and her writing on moral and racial issues.