Nadine Gordimer (1923- )
A selective list of literary criticism for the British, South African novelist and short story writer, 1991 Nobel Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Literary criticism
Coundouriotis, Eleni. "Rethinking cosmopolitanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist." College Literature, 22-JUN-06
"Picking up the Other: Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup" by Franz Meier, in EESE 2/2003
An overview of Nadine Gordimer from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web, includes critical articles about her novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts.
NY 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.
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 (taken offline or moved).
Reading guides on Nadine Gordimer's stories, prepared by Dr. Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University.
A 1998 Salon magazine interview with Nadine Gordimer.
Brief biography of Nadine Gordimer from the Nobel Foundation web site (taken offline or moved).
Gordimer's Nobel lecture, delivered December 7, 1991, "Writing and Being." (Taken offline or moved)
Anette Horn reviews Jump and Other Stories, from the Lansdown Review of South African Literature (taken offline or moved).
A description of the Nadine Gordimer papers at Lilly Library, Indiana University (taken offline or moved).
A 1998 newspaper interview with Nadine Gordimer, The Worcester Phoenix.
Article on the critical reception of Nadine Gordimer's work. "Nadine Gordimer at 70," Dorothy Driver, Southern African Review of Books, November/December 1993. (Taken offline at http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/antho4html/Driver.html)
A review of None to Accompany Me, Boston Globe, 1994.
An interview with Nadine Gordimer in The Atlantic Monthly, February 9, 2000 (taken offline).
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