The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
Worksheet 3 Nadine Gordimer Biography Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Jewish immigrants. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a watchmaker from Lithuania near the Latvian border, and her mother Nan was from London. Gordimer’s early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her father’s experience as […]