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Informationen zum Autor Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist! joint winner of the Booker Prize! Get A Life! Burger's Daughter! July's People! My Son's Story and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent! Something Out There! Jump and! most recently! Loot. She also edited the anthology of stories Telling Tales in support of HIV and AIDS preventive education and for medical treatment for people in southern Africa. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa. Klappentext Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays! this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Now! for the first time! the thirty-five best of her stories! spanning six decades are published in one volume.
