Nadine Gordimer

South African writer and activist

Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump and, most recently, Loot. She also edited the anthology of stories Telling Tales. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa.

Telling Times, published by Bloomsbury in April 2010 and in paperback April 2011, collects together all of Nadine Gordimer’s non-fiction in one volume.

Life Times, published by Bloomsbury in November 2010 and in paperback November 2011, spans six decades and the thirty-five stories are drawn from her ten published collections.