Who Won the 1991
Nobel Prize Literature

Lost and Found
Indian Express
South Africa headed the list with heavyweights like Nobel Prize winners J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer but now it is countries like Nigeria and numerous others that are producing exciting, exceptional writers. Most share a similar background, either ...

Anton Harber Recalls JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer's Disagreement over ...
Books LIVE (blog)
Yesterday we reported on the release of the first issue of Prufrock, a new literary magazine, which features an article by Anton Harber on JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer's opposing reactions to Salman Rushdie's cancelled visit to South Africa in the 1980s.

Thousands mourn literary giant Achebe at hometown funeral
GlobalPost
South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer called Achebe the "father of modern African literature" in 2007, when she was among the judges to award him the Man Booker International prize for fiction. Achebe also strongly backed his native ...

Niq Mhlongo Relates How a Ghost Story Inspired His Latest Novel, Way Back ...
Books LIVE (blog)
Mhlongo also spoke about his literary influences, saying it was “definitely not JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer” who inspired him but that he admires all the writers published in the African Writers Series. Describe yourself in a sentence. An enigma ...