Our author, Nadine Gordimer, has been in the news lately. Not for her writing, but rather because of her reading. A May article from The Independent discusses some of her recent activities.
“Nadine Gordimer has been doing some re-reading lately. Since last November, when the 83-year-old Nobel laureate first convened with Colm Tóibín and Elaine Showalter, her fellow judges on the second Man Booker International Prize committee, she has read through a small library of work by the 15 finalists, from Don DeLillo and Doris Lessing to Carlos Fuentes and Alice Munro..."I made a plan to read, say, the first two books by each author, one a bit further on, and then the book I thought was the work," says Gordimer of her judging strategy.”
That’s approximately 60 books that she has just read!
By the way, the winner of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize was the Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe. We read his best known book, Things Fall Apart, for the 2005 New Student Reading Project. To the left are Ion Trewin (Man Booker International Prize Administrator), Elaine Showalter (Chair of Judges), Nadine Gordimer, Colm Toibin.
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