NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT By Nadine Gordimer 421 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. The curiosity that inspired Homer and Virgil to follow their heroes after the fall of Troy is doubtless as old as war itself, and apparently undiminished. What happens when the carnage ends? How does the victorious or defeated soldier trade the adrenaline rush of...
TELLING TIMES Writing and Living, 1954-2008 By Nadine Gordimer 742 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $39.95 Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 into a land on fire. This is no metaphor, she explains in ''A South African Childhood,'' the first essay in ''Telling Times,'' a big new collection of her nonfiction. The gold-mining town that was her birthplace, in...

Anyone looking through publishers' catalogs might be convinced that the book industry has dispensed with December, as many companies go straight from the blockbusters of November to the take-a-chance books of January. Still, a small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the...
Nadine Gordimer (født 20. november 1923) er en sydafrikansk forfatter. Hun skriver på engelsk. Hendes første novelle blev udgivet i Johannesburg Magazine i 1938.
Hun vandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1991.