Among the writers are Nigeria's Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe; Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz; Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o; South Africa's Nadine
Gordimer and J.
He covers Achebe and Anglophone African literary discourse; Ngug<~i>, nativism, English, and translingualism;
Gordimer, English, race, and cross-cultural translation; and Farah, English, and cosmopolitanism.
PEN members through the years have included Nobel laureates Mario Vargas Llosa, Nadine
Gordimer, Gunter Grass, Francois Mauriac and Liu Xiabao.
South African writer Nadine
Gordimer has been one of the most
The following are the opinions of a number of authors on Mahfouz's works: Nadin
Gordimer (Photo courtesy Wikimedia) "One of the greatest creative talents in the realm of the novel in the world."--Nadine
Gordimer Edward Said (Photo Courtesy Wikimedia) "As a citizen, Naguib Mahfouz sees civility and the continuity of a transnational, abiding, Egyptian personality in his work as perhaps surviving the debilitating processes of conflict and historical degeneration, which he, more than anyone else I have read, has so powerfully depicted."--Edward Said Ahdaf Souief (Photo Courtesy Wikimedia) "Mahfouz was of massively important influence on Arabic literature; he was our greatest living novelist for a very long time.
Autopsy of a Father belongs on the shelf next to works by authors like Nadine
Gordimer and Magda Szabo.
Judy Blume, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, Alvin Schwartz, Leslea Newman, and Nadine
Gordimer used to regularly cause pearl-clutching patrons and parents to have conniptions, so I worried that we Jews were losing our edge.
Nobel laureate Nadine
Gordimer published July's People in 1981, which depicted white-minority rule and its collapse.
Like the wide range of characters in Nadine
Gordimer's early long fiction, white women of conscience are strangled by the condition of living in South Africa in the light of apartheid legislations.
With the death of the South African novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator and scholar, Andre Brink, on 6 February 2015, just seven months after Nadine
Gordimer's on 13 July 2014, a crucial epoch of South African literature and history inexorably moves to a close.