Born: 20-Nov-1923
Birthplace: Springs, Transvaal, South Africa

Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: South Africa
Executive summary: South African novelist

Father: Isidore Gordimer
Mother: Nan Gordimer
Husband: G. Gavran (m. 1949)
Husband: Reinhold Cassirer (art dealer, m. 1954, d. 2001, two children)

    High School: Our Lady of Mercy Convent, Springs, South Africa
    University: Witwatersrand University (dropped out)

    Booker Prize 1975 for The Conversationalist
    Nobel Prize for Literature 1991

Author of books:
The Lying Days (1953, novel)
A World of Strangers (1958, novel)
Occasion for Loving (1963, novel)
The Late Bourgeois World (1966, novel)
A Guest of Honour (1970, novel)
The Conservationist (1974, novel)
Burger's Daughter (1979, novel)
July's People (1981, novel)
A Sport of Nature (1987, novel)
My Son's Story (1990, novel)
None to Accompany Me (1994, novel)
The House Gun (1998, novel)
The Pickup (2001, novel)
Loot and Other Stories (2003, short stories)

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