English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

Gordimer is the author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories;
her work over the past forty years has insistently and increasingly
focused upon the legacies and moral consequences of apartheid.
*Heralded* as well as banned in her native country, Gordimer has
consistently refused to leave South Africa. By addressing its
political and racial turmoil in her fiction, she has chosen a
spiritual exile over an actual one. In announcing its selection to the press, the Academy praised Gordimer for her magnificent epic writing, her compassion and her outstanding literary style.