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Nadine Gordimer Bibliography

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#1
Short Stories
1945
The Kindest Thing to Do
1945
The Hour and the Years
1947
The Train from Rhodesia
1947
Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?
1948
The Soft Voice of the Serpent
1948
The Amateurs
1948
The Umbilical Chord
1948
The Defeated
1949
A Commonplace Story
1949
A Present for a Good Girl
1949
La Vie Boheme
1949
Ah, Woe Is Me
1949
The Talisman
1949
A Commonplace Story
1949
Monday Is Better Than Sunday
1949
In the Beginning
1950
Treasures of the Sea
1951
The Catch
1951
A Watcher of the Dead
1952
The Prisoner
1952
Another Part of the Sky
1952
Bit of Young Life
1953
Six Feet of the Country
1953
Clowns in Clover
1954
Out of Season
1954
Wand'ring Minstrel, I
1954
Smell of Death and Flowers
1955
Which New Era Would That Be?
1956
Face from Atlantis
1956
Enemies
1956
My First Two Women
1956
The White Goddess and the Mealie Question
1956
Happy Event
1956
Charmed Lives
1956
Horn of Plenty
1956
Cicatrice
1957
The Last Kiss
1957
Little Willie
1957
Check Yes or No
1957
Our Bovary
1959
The Bridegroom
1960
Friday's Footprint
1960
The Night the Favorite Came Home
1960
A Style of Her Own
1960
The Gentle Art
1960
The Path of the Moon's Dark Fortnight
1960
A Thing of the Past
1960
Harry's Presence
1960
Something for the Time Being
1961
A Chip of Glass Ruby
1961
The African Magician
1962
Through Time and Distance
1962
The Pet
1962
Message in a Bottle
1962
Native Country
1964
One Whole Year, and Even More
1965
Son-in-Law
1965
A Company of Laughing Faces
1965
The Worst Thing of All
1965
Tenants of the Last Tree-House
1965
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants
1965
Vital Statistics
1965
Some Monday for Sure
1965
A Third Presence
1967
The Bride of Christ
1968
The Life of the Imagination
1968
A Satisfactory Settlement
1969
Rain-Queen
1971
Livingstone's Companions
1971
The Credibility Gap
1971
Abroad
1971
An Intruder
1971
Inkalamu's Place
1971
A Meeting in Space
1971
Open House
1971
No Place Like
1971
Otherwise Birds Fly In
1971
Why Haven't You Written?
1971
Africa Emergent
1975
A Lion on the Freeway
1975
Siblings
1977
For Dear Life
1977
The Need for Something Sweet
1977
A Hunting Accident
1979
Rags and Bones
1980
A Soldier's Embrace
1980
Town and Country Lovers
1980
The Termitary
1980
A Mad One
1980
Oral History
1981
Crimes of Conscience
1981
A Correspondence Course
1982
A City of the Dead, a City of the Living
1982
Sins of the Third Age
1983
At the Rendezvous of Victory
1983
Letter from His Father
1983
Blinder
1984
Terminal
1984
Something Out There
1985
What Were You Dreaming?
1987
Spoils
1988
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
1988
Home
1988
History
1989
Once Upon a Time
1989
The Ultimate Safari
1990
A Find
1990
My Father Leaves Home
1990
Amnesty
1991
Jump
1991
Some Are Born to Sweet Delight
1991
Comrades
1991
Teraloyna
1991
A Journey
1991
Safe Houses
1991
Keeping Fit
1992
Why Haven't You Written
1992
Look-alikes
1993
L,U,C,I,E.
1999
Loot
1999
The Diamond Mine
2000
The Generation Gap
2003
Homage
2003
An Emissary
2004
Gregor
2004
Allesverloren
2007
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
2007
Tape Measure
2007
Dreaming of the Dead
2007
A Frivolous Woman
2007
Safety Procedures
2007
Mother Tongue
2007
A Beneficiary
2007
Alternative Endings
2007
Parking Tax
2011
Second Coming
#2
Play
1949
The First Circle
 
 
#3
Short Story Collections
1949
Face to Face
1952
The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories
1956
Six Feet of the Country
1956
Which New Era Would That Be?
1960
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories
1965
Not for Publication
1971
Livingstone's Companions
1975
Selected Stories
1976
Some Monday for Sure
1978
No Place Like: Selected Shorts
1980
A Soldier's Embrace
1982
Town and Country Lovers
1984
Something Out There
1984
Correspondence Course and Other Stories
1991
Crimes of Conscience
1991
Jump: and Other Stories
1992
Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories, 1950-1972
1992
Something for the Time Being: 1950-1972
2003
Loot and Other Stories
2007
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
2011
Life Times: Stories, 1952-2007
 
 
#4
Novels
1953
The Lying Days
1958
A World of Strangers
1963
Occasion for Loving
1970
A Guest of Honour
1974
The Conservationist
1979
Burger's Daughter
1981
July's People
1987
A Sport of Nature
1990
My Son's Story
1994
None to Accompany Me
1998
The House Gun
2001
The Pickup
2005
Get a Life
2012
No Time Like the Present
#5
Essays
1954
Allusions in a Landscape
1955
Hassan in America
1959
Where Do Whites Fit In?
1959
Chief Luthuli
1959
Egypt Revisited
1959
1959: What Is Apartheid?
1961
The Congo
1963
A Bolter and the Invincible Summer
1963
Great Problems in the Street
1963
Censored, Banned, Gagged
1963
Party of One
1964
Notes of an Expropriator
1966
Why Did Bram Fischer Choose Jail?
1966
One Man Living Through It
1967
How Not to Know the African
1968
The Short Story in South Africa
1969
Censorship in South Africa: The Legal Framework
1969
Madagascar
1971
Speak Out: The Necessity for Protest
1971
Merci Dieu, It Changes
1971
Accra and Abidjan
1971
Pack Up, Black Man
1972
Unchaining Poets
1973
The New Black Poets
1975
A Writer's Freedom
1975
Selecting My Stories
1975
A Morning in the Library: 1975
1976
Letter from Johannesburg, 1976
1976
English-Language Literature and Politics in South Africa
1977
What Being a South African Means to Me
1978
A Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns
1979
Pula!
1979
Relevance and Commitment
1980
What Happened to Burger's Daughter
1980
Reasons for the Ban
1980
What the Book Is About
1980
Reasons for Lifting the Ban
1980
What the Literary Press Thought About the Novel
1980
A Short List of Recently Banned Books
1980
The Prison-house of Colonialism: Ruth First's and Ann Scott's Olive Schreiner
1980
Letter from the 153rd State
1981
The South African Censor: No Change
1982
Unconfessed History: Alan Paton's Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
1982
Mysterious Incest: Patrick White's Flaws in the Glass: a Self-Portrait
1982
The Child Is the Man: Wole Soyinka Aké: The Years of Childhood
1983
Living in the Interregnum
1984
The Idea of Gardening: J.M. Coatzee's The Life and Times of Michael K
1984
New Notes from Underground: Breyten Breytenbach's Mouroir
1986
The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State
1988
The Unlikeable Word
1988
Censors and Unconfessed History
1988
The Essential Gesture
1988
Letter from Johannesburg, 1985
1988
Huddleston: a Sign
1989
How Shall We Look at Each Other Then?
1989
The Gap Between the Writer and the Reader
1989
The African Pot
1989
Censorship: The Final Solution - The Case of Salman Rushdie
1990
A Writer's Vital Gift to a Free Society: The Satanic Verses
1990
Freedom Struggles Out of the Chrysalis
1990
Sorting the Images from the Man: Nelson Mandela
1990
Censorship and Its Aftermath
1991
Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics
1991
Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of Empire and Exile
1992
Turning the Page: African Writers and the Twenty-First Century
1993
Beyond Myth: Mandela's Mettle
1994
Rising to the Ballot
1995
Act Two: One Year Later
1995
Writing and Being
1995
Our Century
1995
Letter from South Africa
1995
Cannes Epilogue
1995
Remembering Barry Simon
1997
The Dialogue of Late Afternoon
1997
The Poor Are Always with Us: The Eradication of Poverty
1999
The Status of the Writer in the World Today: Which World? Whose World?
1999
References: The Codes of Culture
1999
The Lion, the Bull, and the Tree
1999
Günter Grass
1999
An Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer
1999
Heroes and Villains
1999
Crack the Nut: The Future Between Your Teeth
1999
29 October 1989 - A Beautiful Day, Com
1999
Mandela: What He Means to Us
1999
The First Time
1999
The Essential Document
1999
As Others See Us
1999
Labour Well the Teeming Earth
1999
Living on a Frontierless Land: Cultural Globalization
1999
Octavio Paz: Poet-Archer
1999
When Art Meets Politics
1999
A Letter to Future Generations
1999
Five Years Into Freedom: My New South African Identity
1999
Hemingway's Expatriates: a Way of Looking at the World
2000
Personal Proust
2000
Africa's Plague, and Everyone's
2001
What News on the Rialto?
2001
The Dwelling Place of Words
2001
The Entitlement Approach
2001
The Ballad of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
2002
Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart
2002
Joseph Conrad and Almayer's Folly
2003
A Coincidence of Wills?
2003
Witness--Past or Present?
2003
Fear Eats the Soul
2003
Living with a Writer
2003
Edward Said
2003
With Them You Never Know: Albert Memmi
2003
William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe
2003
Atlantis
2003
Thirst
2003
Questions Journalists Don't Ask
2004
To You I Can: Gustave Flaubert's November
2004
Leo Tolstoy and The Death of Ivan Ilyich
2005
Susan Sontag
2005
Home Truths from the Past: Machiavelli or Erasmus?
2006
Witness: The Inward Testimony
2006
Desmond Tutu as I Know Him
2006
Lust and Death: Philip Roth's Everyman
2006
Faith, Reason and War
2006
The Lion in Literature
2007
Naguib Mahfouz's Three Novels of Ancient Egypt
2008
Experiencing Two Absolutes
2013
Nelson Mandela
#6
Novellas
1960
An Image of Success
1966
The Late Bourgeois World
 
 
#7
Essay Collections
1973
The Black Interpreters: Notes on African Writing
1980
What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works
1988
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places
1999
Living in Hope and History
2010
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
 
 
#8
Non-Fiction Books
1973
On the Mines
1986
Lifetimes Under Apartheid
 
 
#9
Novelettes
2003
Mission Statement
2003
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