Career timelines
Nadine Gordimer: stories, novels and literary recognition
Selected publications and honours, with the joint Booker win and edition dates made clear.
What this record covers
Selected publishing, prize and lecture milestones from 1949 to 2012, with death recorded in July 2014. This is not a complete bibliography, censorship record or account of political activity.
Position at the coverage date
Historical record of the South African writer and Nobel laureate, who died on 13 July 2014. [s1] [s2] [s3] [s4] [s5] [s6]
Record details
- South African writer
- The Nobel facts page identifies Gordimer’s birth in Springs and her South African residence at the time of the prize. [s1]
- Short stories and novels
- The Nobel bibliography records both forms across decades, beginning with Face to Face and The Lying Days. [s2]
- Shared Booker award
- Booker identifies The Conservationist as a joint winner in 1974. [s3]
- Nobel announcement
- The Swedish Academy’s announcement recognises novels and short stories concerned with the consequences of apartheid. [s5]
The sequence
12 documented milestones. Highlighted entries mark turning points. Dates retain the precision of the source.
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Published Face to Face
The Nobel bibliography records the Johannesburg short-story collection in 1949.
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Published The Lying Days
The Nobel bibliography lists the London novel edition in 1953.
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Published A World of Strangers
The Nobel bibliography lists the novel in 1958.
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Published Occasion for Loving
The Nobel bibliography lists the novel in 1963.
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Shared the Booker Prize
Booker records The Conservationist as a joint prize winner in 1974.
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Published Burger’s Daughter
The Nobel bibliography dates the London edition to 1979.
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Published July’s People
The Nobel bibliography records the New York novel edition in 1981.
announcement
The Nobel award was announced
The Swedish Academy announced Gordimer as its literature laureate on 3 October 1991.
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Delivered Writing and Being
The Nobel website dates Gordimer’s lecture to 7 December 1991.
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Judged the International Booker Prize
The Booker author record lists Gordimer among the judges of the 2007 prize.
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Published collected nonfiction and stories
Booker records Telling Times and Life Times appearing in 2010.
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Published her final novel
Booker identifies No Time Like the Present, published in 2012, as her final novel.
Sources & evidence
- [s1] www.nobelprize.org
- [s2] www.nobelprize.org
- [s3] thebookerprizes.com
- [s4] sahistory.org.za
- [s5] www.nobelprize.org
- [s6] www.nobelprize.org
Public update history
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