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A quill in the cap of a debut author

Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Nov 2024
It is award season in every corner of South Africa’s creative industry, from film to music, and every stage in between. The literary industry is no exception ... of his work ... The Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award went to Dawn Garisch for What Remains ... ....
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The Enviable Life of a True American Publisher

Scheerpost 25 Oct 2024
Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie” by Steve Wasserman. Photo courtesy of Steve Wasserman. Click to subscribe on ... Credits. Host.. Robert Scheer ... Hold ... Nadine Gordimer once wrote or said that she tried to write posthumously.
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“Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie”

Scheerpost 25 Oct 2024
Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie” by Steve Wasserman. Photo courtesy of Steve Wasserman. Click to subscribe on ... Credits. Host.. Robert Scheer ... Hold ... Nadine Gordimer once wrote or said that she tried to write posthumously.
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Alex La Guma and Third Worldism: A legacy of global activism

Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Oct 2024
Unlike many of his peers, he never had a chance to come home and witness the long-awaited transition to democracy ... The Exile Years, 1966-1985 ... He reviewed fellow South Africans like Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer and Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali ... ....
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The misery of growing up in a utopian community

The Spectator 01 Oct 2024
In Home Is Where We Start, Susanna Crossman quotes one of Nadine Gordimer’s characters on the subject of utopias.. When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on Earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition ... .
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights unexamined motives nestled in the unconscious

Mail Guardian South Africa 23 Aug 2024
Nadine Gordimer once remarked of JM Coetzee that he knows himself better than most people will ever know themselves. I understand this to include his grasp of what motivates his behaviour ... Putin’s war in Ukraine is a good case in point ... ....
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流苏:蚂蚁唱歌——英培安的办刊寓言

Lianhe Zaobao 21 Aug 2024
对于文学场的关注,《接触》介绍诺贝尔文学奖得主的创作背景、思想理念与著作,让读者深入了解当代世界文学动向。有1978年得奖的美籍犹太裔作家艾萨·辛格(Isaac B.Singer);1990年的墨西哥作家奥大维奥·帕斯(Octavio Paz);1991年的南非女作家戈狄默(Nadine Gordimer)。介绍英国女作家多丽丝·莱辛(Doris ...
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UK’s deadly, destructive right-wing extremism a warning for SA

Independent online (SA) 11 Aug 2024
In their report titled July’s People, after Nadine Gordimer’s novel, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) highlight that “at the time of the occurrence of the July 2021 unrest, the ...
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Salute To Soyinka, Osoba and Obaigbena

This Day 16 Jul 2024
I write about three icons born in the month of July – July People – not in the sense in which students of literature are wont to think of Nadine Gordimer’s novel of the same title – which ...
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‘Crooked Seeds’: Karen Jennings’ dystopian Cape Town novel examines water crisis

Live Mint 14 Jun 2024
Karen Jennings’ second novel, Crooked Seeds, is set in Cape Town of 2028, which is reeling from an acute water crisis caused by a drought ... Paul Auster ... As T.S ... Following in the footsteps of the greats such as Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing and J.M.
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TRIBUTE: Steven Goldblatt, a Mail & Guardian founder, was courageous, bold and pesterer-in-chief

Mail Guardian South Africa 28 May 2024
Goldblatt was good at that, pulling in a range of people from Nadine Gordimer to Harry Oppenheimer and the man who owned the print shop across the road, where Goldblatt bartered the cost of printing our leaflets for the price of one share ... ....
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‘I am prepared to die’: Mandela’s speech which shook apartheid

Al Jazeera 20 Apr 2024
After he spoke that last sentence, novelist and activist Nadine Gordimer, who was in the courtroom on April 20, 1964, said, “The strangest and most moving sound I have ever heard from human throats came from the Black side of the court audience.

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