The Art of Fiction LXXVII: Nadine Gordimer.

Presents an interview with writer Nadine Gordimer who was born nearly sixty years ago in a small gold-mining town near Johannesburg. Her first short stories were published in 1939, when she was fifteen. In the United States, during the 1950s, her fiction appeared in the New Yorker, among other magaz...

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Published in:Paris Review no. 88; pp. 82 - 128
Main Author: Hurwitt, Jannika
Format: Interview
Published: Paris Review Summer83
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