- Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa. She was a writer and director, known for The Gordimer Stories (1982), Allen Boesak: Choosing for Justice (1984) and The House Gun. She was married to Reinhold Cassirer and Gerald Gavronsky. She died on July 13, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- SpousesReinhold Cassirer(1954 - 2001) (his death, 1 child)Gerald Gavronsky(1949 - 1952) (divorced, 1 child)
- Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 180-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995
- Author of successful novels such as "The Lying Day" (1953), "The Conservationist" (1974) or "The Pickup" (2001). Most of her books deal with the political and moral situation in her home country South Africa.
- Was robbed by three men in her home in Johannesburg (26 October 2006).
- Responsibility is what waits outside the Eden of Creativity.
- I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
- From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
- People give one another things that can't be gift-wrapped.
- Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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