Nadine Gordimer
South African novelist and political activist known for novels and essays addressing apartheid and social change; author of works such as July's People and the essay 'Living in the Interregnum,' and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Feb 15, 2026 • 1h 9min
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982
Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist and Nobel laureate known for novels on apartheid, offers a candid James Lecture. She names the era an interregnum and probes white identity, the role of writers, and how institutions and politics must be reimagined. Short, urgent meditations on moral choice, black leadership, and rebuilding a democratic left.
Sep 6, 2012 • 52min
Tessa Hadley Reads Nadine Gordimer
In this month's fiction podcast, Tessa Hadley reads "City Lovers," a story by the South African writer and 1991 Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. The story, which was published in The New Yorker in 1975, focusses on a love affair between a white man and a "colored" woman in Apartheid South Africa. It's deeply political in its details--the man is a geologist at a mining company, the couple's affair is illegal, and they cover it up by pretending that she is his servant. But Gordimer writes with a focussed intimacy that makes the piece a tragic love story rather than a political morality tale. "One of the things I think she can teach us," says Hadley, "is how to write politically without becoming shrill."
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