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Essay Galaxy - Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a small mining town near Johannesburg in South Africa, which turned out to be the setting for Gordimer's first novel, The Lying Days (1953). Her father was a Jewish jeweler originally from Latvia and her mother of British descent. She was educated in a convent school and she spent a year at Witwaterstrand University, Johannesburg without taking a degree. She has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, and North America, where she has often. undertaken lecture tours, but has continued to live in Johannesburg; married since 1954 to a businessman, Reinhold Cassirer. The couple has a son and each has a daughter from a previous marriage.
She was often kept at home by a mother who imagined she had a weak heart, and began writing from the age of nine; her first work appeared in the Johannesburg magazine Forum when she was fifteen. Her first co....
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