Nadine Gordimer

Bibliography

Novels
The Lying Days. – London : Gollancz, 1953
A World of Strangers. – London : Gollancz, 1958
Occasion for Loving. – London : Gollancz, 1963
The Late Bourgeois World. – New York : Viking, 1966
A Guest of Honour. – London : Cape, 1971
The Conservationist. – London : Cape, 1974
Burger’s Daughter. – London : Cape, 1979
July’s People. – New York : Viking, 1981
A Sport of Nature. – London : Cape, 1987
My Son’s Story. – London : Bloomsbury, 1990
None to Accompany Me. – London : Bloomsbury, 1994
The House Gun. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
The Pickup. – London : Bloomsbury, 2001
Get a Life. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005
No Time Like the Present. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
 
Short stories
Face to Face. – Johannesburg : Silver Leaf Books, 1949
The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories. – New York, Simon and Schuster, 1952
Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories. – New York, Simon and Schuster, 1956
Friday’s Footprint. – London : Gollancz, 1960
Not for Publication: Fifteen Stories. – London : Gollancz, 1965
Livingstone’s Companions. – London : Jonathan Cape, 1972.
Selected Stories. – London : Cape, 1975
Some Monday for Sure. – London : Heinemann Educational, 1976
A Soldier’s Embrace. – London : Cape, 1980
Something Out There. – London : Cape, 1984
Reflections of South Africa. – Herning : Systime, 1986
Crimes of Conscience: Selected Short Stories. – London : Heinemann, 1991
Jump and Other Stories. – London : Bloomsbury, 1991
Why Haven’t You Written : Selected Stories 1950-1972. – New York : Viking, 1993
Harald, Claudia, and Their Son Duncan. – London : Bloomsbury, 1996
Loot and Other Stories. – London : Bloomsbury, 2003
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007
Life Times : Stories, 1952-2007. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
 
Other (selection)
The Black Interpreters: Notes on African Writing. – Johannesburg : Spro-Cas/Ravan, 1973
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places / edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman. – London : Cape, 1988
Writing and Being. – Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press, 1995
Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century. – New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
 
Critical studies (selection)
Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer/ edited by Rowland Smith. – Boston : Hall, 1990
The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer/ edited by Bruce King. – London : Macmillan, 1993
Ettin, Andrew Vogel, Betrayals of the Body Politic: the Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer. – 1993
Nadine Gordimer: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 1937-1992/ compiled by Dorothy Driver … – 1994
Wagner, Kathrin, Rereading Nadine Gordimer: Text and Subtext in the Novels. – Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 1994
A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer / edited by Andries Walter Oliphant. – London : Viking, 1998
Temple-Thurston, Barbara, Nadine Gordimer Revisited / Barbara Temple-Thurston. – New York : Twayne Publishers, 1999
Roberts, Ronald Suresh, No Cold Kitchen : a Biography of Nadine Gordimer. – Johannesburg : STE Publishers, 2005
Telling times : Writing and Living, 1954-2008. – New York : Norton, 2010

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