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Coundouriotis, Eleni. "Rethinking cosmopolitanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist." College Literature, 22-JUN-06
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic23/franz/2_2003.html "Picking up the Other: Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup" by Franz Meier, in EESE 2/2003
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/sa/gordimer/gordimerov.html An outstanding overview of Nadine Gordimer's work from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web. It includes critical articles about her novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/gordimer.html New York Times reviews of Gordimer's novels, from The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories in 1952, to House Gun in 1998, along with Times news stories on Gordimer, are available through this Times web page. (NYTimes articles are free but require a one time registration.)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gordimer.htm Brief biography from the Books and Writers web site, maintained by the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland..
http://www.sdsmt.edu/courses/is/hum375/africa.html An overview of African literature, background material on Crimes of Conscience, and discussion questions on the novel, from the South Dakota Humanities Council Reading Guides.
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~brians/anglophone/gordimer.html#bridegroom. Reading guides on Nadine Gordimer's stories, prepared by Dr. Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University.
http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_09int.html A 1998 Salon magazine interview with Gordimer.
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/literature/laureates/1991/press.html Press release on the award of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature to Nadine Gordimer.
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/literature/laureates/1991/gordimer-bio.html Brief biography of Gordimer from the Nobel Foundation web site.
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/literature/laureates/1991/gordimer-lecture.html Gordimer's Nobel lecture, delivered December 7, 1991, "Writing and Being."
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/jump.htm Anette Horn reviews Jump and Other Stories, from the Lansdown Review of South African Literature.
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/gordimer/nadine.html A description of the Nadine Gordimer papers at Lilly Library, Indiana University.
http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/books/98/01/02/THE_HOUSE_GUN_BAR.html A 1998 interview with Gordimer.
http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/antho4html/Driver.html Article on the critical reception of Gordimer's work. "Nadine Gordimer at 70," Dorothy Driver, Southern African Review of Books, November/December 1993.
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994n.html A fairly negative Boston Globe review of None to Accompany Me.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-02-09.htm An interview with Nadine Gordimer in The Atlantic Monthly, February 9, 2000.
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