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Part of the Birss 2023 Exhibit:
A Celebration of the Works of Nadine Gordimer

"I don’t write about apartheid. I write about people who happen to live under that system...To me, all art is an attempt to make a private order out of the chaos in life … I was writing for a long time before I stood outside and could analyze what I was doing in terms of politics."

From Nadine Gordimer's interview with Jordan Elgrably, October 2, 1982. Published as part of “A Conversation With Nadine Gordimer" by Gordimer, N., Boyers, R., Blaise, C., Diggory T., & Elgrably, J. , Salmagundi, no. 62, 1984, pp. 3–31.

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Nadine Gordimer
Salmagundi Magazine
John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Program

One of many posters published by the Anti-Apartheid Movement to publicize the campaign for the release of political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia. Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee

“I tried to read books about South Africa or by South African writers. I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."
From Nelson Mandela's Autobiography

Source: Nelson Mandela Foundation, https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/nelson-mandela-foundation-sends-condolences-on-the-passing-of-nadine-gordim

Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee

From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Freedom Charter Graffiti - written on the wall of the holding cell below the courtroom at the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, South Africa where Mandela and other prisoners in the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964) were held. Courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Freedom and PHParsons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) Archives Committee

Virtual Keynote with
Claire Messud, Robert Boyers, & James Wood

“Writing & Political Activism:
The Work of South African Writer
Nadine Gordimer”

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We'd like to thank our project partners:

The Honors Program at Roger Williams University
The Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington
Salmagundi magazine at Skidmore College

We'd like to thank our project partners:

The Honors Program at Roger Williams UniversityThe Lilly Library at Indiana University, BloomingtonSalmagundi magazine at Skidmore College

The Honors Program at Roger Williams University
The Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington
Salmagundi magazine at Skidmore College