Talk:Nadine Gordimer

message: So the bio info box lists "Face to Face" as her "debut short story"; but the article itself says her first published story was "The Quest for Seen Gold" at age of 15.  When was Face to Face published, and by what criteria is it being listed as her debut short story? I'm going to shift the biobox but bringing it up here first in case there's a better explanation for Face to Face. --lquilter 02:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also seen "Come Again Tomorrow", published in Forum when she was 14, cited as her first work. ... Really need to go get some definitive critical biography for this. --lquilter 15:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  debut short story in biobox 

message: The work-by-work material in there now is clunky and amateurish,* and (a) I believe it would be more graceful and useful as a review of Gordimer as a writer if there were a section primarily looking at persistent themes in Gordimer's work, and tracing when they started arising and how they were handled over her works.  (b) I'm ambivalent about the work-by-work section. I realize that some readers want to get information on each individual work, and it is a useful place to chart other chronological issues, such as awards, censorship/availability, relationship to Gordimer's biography, etc.  But work-by-work alone is not adequate for a literary biography. Thoughts? 
* (Yes I'm the one who mostly put in the material in a work-by-work format but I excuse myself because getting *any* useful information in the article was difficult at the time.)  
lquilter 15:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  restructure "work and themes" section? 

message: The short story collection "Some Monday for Sure" (published in 1976 and appearing in the Heinemann African Writers series) seems to be missing from the bibliography.  Can it be added?
And what (if anything) does it owe by way of inspiration to Virginia Woolf's short story collection "Monday or Tuesday"?  The naming cannot be coincidental, I should think.
Mangodog (talk) 16:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Monday For Sure 

message: Where would it be appropriate to include the recent attack and robbery of Gordimer in her home? Her "Biography" section cuts off before the 60s.
Also, advice on whether the more factual article by the Guardian or the more detailed article by the Times that passes this off as symptomatic of South Africa, is the more appropriate reference? -Kez (talk) 15:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attacked in home 

message: In the infobox on the top right of the page, it is stated that that Nadine Gordimer won "the Penis Prize", 1991. Eh, right. Have replaced it with the Nobel prize, but I though I should notify you that someone apparently thought this was funny. Hope they won't try it again... Jantien (talk) 14:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the WHAT prize? 

message: Could we try to get a better picture--one that includes more of her than the interviewer? Thanks, Sontag12  —Preceding undated comment added 19:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: - Editor Red Pen of Doom flagged the two paragraphs on the Roberts unauthorized biography as "undue" (diff), then removed the separate subsection for that material (diff) which put it into the previous subsection, on literary reception. I agree a separate subsection is probably too much ("undue"), and further recommend we carefully edit that content down to one paragraph.  However, the content doesn't fit well with the "reception" section, which is about critical response to Gordimer's works.  Instead, I moved it to the section about Gordimer's activism & professional life, and modified the subsection header to reflect the change.  Roberts' allegations center around the content in this section; and the dispute b/w Gordimer & Roberts seems to me to be more related to her professional conduct than about the literary reception of her work.  Any other thoughts? --Lquilter (talk) 12:31, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: seems reasonable approach. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:59, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  roberts unauthorized bio controversy 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: Why is there a link on The house gun on this article that links back to this article? If there's no article for The house gun it should not have a link I would have thought? Sterry2607 (talk) 08:07, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the link – that's a circular link. Thanks for pointing that out. —Bruce1eetalk 08:21, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The house gun 

message: What was the nature of the resistance to the apartheid in 1950 41.246.31.78 (talk) 13:57, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read do your own homework. —Bruce1eetalk 14:01, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History politics