Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Political Activist, Novelist and Short Story Writer                          

Selected Works:

Novels:

The Lying Days - 1953
A World of Strangers - 1958
Occasion for Loving - 1963
The Late Bourgeois World - 1966
A Guest of Honour - 1970
The Conservationist - 1974 - Joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974
Burger's Daughter - 1979
July's People - 1981
A Sport of Nature - 1987
My Son's Story - 1990
None to Accompany Me - 1994
The House Gun - 1998
The Pickup - 2001
Get a Life - 2005

Plays:

The First Circle - 1949 - Published in Six One-Act Plays

Adaptations of Gordimer's Works:

"The Gordimer Stories" - 1981–82 - Adaptations of seven short stories; Nadine Gordimer wrote screenplays for four of them.

Other Works:

On the Mines - 1973
Lifetimes Under Apartheid - 1986
Choosing for Justice: Allan Boesak- 1983 - Documentary with Hugo Cassirer
"Berlin and Johannesburg: The Wall and the Colour Bar - Documentary with Hugo Cassirer

Edited Works:

Telling Tales - 2004
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - 2010

Short fiction Collections:

Face to Face - 1949
Town and Country Lovers
The Soft Voice of the Serpent - 1952
Six Feet of the Country - 1956
Which New Era Would That Be? - 1956
Friday's Footprint - 1960
Not for Publication - 1965
Livingstone's Companions - 1970
Selected Stories - 1975
No Place Like: Selected Stories - 1978
A Soldier's Embrace - 1980
Something Out There - 1984
Correspondence Course and other Stories - 1984
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off - 1988
Once Upon a Time - 1989
Jump: And Other Stories - 1991
Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972 - 1992
Something for the Time Being 1950-1972 - 1992
Loot: And Other Stories - 2003
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black - 2007
Essay collections
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places - 1988
The Black Interpreters - 1973
Writing and Being: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures - 1995.                          

Parents Isidore and Nan Gordimer                          

Honours and Awards:

W. H. Smith Commonwealth Literary Award - England - 1961
James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Scotland - 1972
Booker Prize for The Conservationist - 1974
CNA Prize - Central News Agency Literary Award, South Africa - 1974, 1975, 1980, 1991
Grand Aigle d'Or - France - 1975
Orange Prize shortlisting; Nadine Gordimer rejected
Scottish Arts Council Neil M. Gunn Fellowship - 1981
Modern Language Association Award - United States - 1982
Bennett Award - United States - 1987
Premio Malaparte - Italy - 1985
Nelly Sachs Prize - Germany - 1986
Anisfield Wolf Book Award - 1988, A Sport of Nature
Nobel Prize for Literature - 1991
Laureate of the International Botev Prize - 1996
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book from Africa - 2002; for The Pickup
Booker Prize longlist - 2001; for The Pickup
Legion of Honour - France - 2007
Hon. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Hon. Member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature - Britain
Patron, Congress of South African Writers
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres - France
At least 15 honorary degrees - the first being Doctor Honoris Causa at Leuven University in Belgium.                          

Her mother, whose concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa led her to found a crèche for black children.