ÃÂÃÂWriting is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps youÃÂÃÂve made sense of one small area.ÃÂÃÂ- Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer is not your typical, everyday author who strictly puts his or her mind to writing simply another novel or short story. Nadine Gordimer expresses her feelings on apartheid and the separation blacks often felt during her time in South Africa. Born and raised in South Africa, Gordimer often observed the hardships and struggles that African Americans faced every day. Her writing style clearly explains the time of despair and apartheid she so often saw. Gordimer, who is currently 83 years old, still today continues to express her feelings and fights for black equality in the country of South Africa.
Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923, and grew up in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa. Her hometown was the setting of her first novel, The Lying Days.
She was born to Jewish immigrant parents and into a very well-off family. But the community which Gordimer grew up in was not one expected from such a high class family. In such a racially divided South African nation, Gordimer began writing about the experiences she witnessed at an early age. Blacks were often discriminated against and from her early childhood, Gordimer saw how the white minority slowly weakened the rights of the black majority.
GordimerÃÂÃÂs mother played a huge role in her childhood, as she basically followed her everywhere she went. In an interview conducted in the fall of 1979 and the spring of 1980, Gordimer explained just how significant her mother was during her childhood years. After contracting a major heart ailment when she was eleven years old, GordimerÃÂÃÂs mother was forced to withdraw her daughter from school and began getting privately tutored. So during those years, from...