Justin Cartwright

Taking on the turmoil

Nadine Gordimer is now in her mid-eighties. For as long as I have been alive, she has been the towering figure of South African literature, a fact recognised in l991 by the Nobel committee. This is a collection of her non-fiction over 60 years, running to nearly 800 pages.

issue 29 May 2010

  • Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

    Nadine Gordimer

    Bloomsbury, pp. 742

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