Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid's dehumanization of blacks, she was also a determined ...

Not long after Nadine Gordimer’s death was announced Monday, her words began to circle the globe. The South African Nobel laureate was born at a time when the telegraph was the quickest form of ...

As an 82-year-old woman confronted by four fit young men out to rob her home, Nadine Gordimer might have been paralysed by terror at the thought of what has befallen ...

Reporting from JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — From childhood, Nadine Gordimer understood the cruelties of apartheid. “I went to the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy,” the daughter of poor South African ...

Nobel Prize winner Gordimer's novel follows two couples, one black, one white, and their evolving interaction with each other and with society during the unraveling of South African apartheid. (Oct.) ...

Novelist Nadine Gordimer crossed South Africa’s color line to become a staunch opponent of apartheid and supporter of the ANC. Her fiction tackled the savage inequalities of South African society that ...

Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel Prize-winning author famed for her portrayals of South Africa under apartheid, died Sunday, her family said in a statement. She was 90. Gordimer was considered a modern ...

The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device. The Sci-Fi Novelist Who ...

The PR man for Bloomsbury, Nadine Gordimer's publisher, is a bit nervous about meeting the great author, and frankly so am I. Gordimer is held in awe by anyone who knows anything about her life. "We ...

Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African author and anti-apartheid activist, died Sunday, her family said Monday. She was 90. Gordimer died peacefully in her sleep, according to a ...

"I am not a political person by nature," Nadine Gordimer once said. "I don't suppose, if I had lived elsewhere, my writing would have reflected politics." Gordimer was born in South Africa in the ...