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Perhaps more than the work of any other writer, the novels of Nadine Gordimer have given imaginative and moral shape to the recent history of South Africa. Since the publication of her first book, The Lying Days (1953), she has charted the changing patterns of response and resistance to apartheid with her exploration of the place of the European in Africa, her selection of representative themes and governing motifs for novels and short stories, and her accompanying shifts in ideological focus from a liberal to a more radical position. It was in recognition of this achievement, of having borne untiring and lucid narrative witness, that Gordimer was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. More...

http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/sa/gordimer/gordimerbio.html (Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English)