The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility

NADINE GORDIMER was born and lives in South Africa. She is the author of eight novels, including July’s People, Burger’s Daughter, and The Conservationist — which won England’s Booker Prize in 1974 — as well as eight collections of short stories, the most recent of which is Something Out There, published in 1984. Among Ms. Gordimer’s other literary awards is the French international prize the Grand Aigle d’Or (1975), and she was awarded the Scottish Arts Council’s Neil Gunn Fellowship for 1981.