Nadine Gordimer

Biography

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) received the Booker Prize for her novel The Conservationist in 1974 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Born in South Africa, Gordimer began her publishing career in the United States in the pages of VQR with her story “The Catch,” featured in the Summer 1951 issue. The author of more than thirty story collections, novels, and essays, she was one of the great voices of resistance to apartheid.

See Work

FICTION / Spring 2007

The Second Sense

By Nadine Gordimer

He was a young D.Phil. from Budapest then—when they emigrated, for reasons nobody here is interested in, there have been so many waves of Europeans, whites moving in on the blacks’ country. Whether this time the instance was escape from...