November Author Birthdays – part 2

“The season is changing, and most chilly evenings in November I’d just like to curl up with a good book. Consider this list of authors with November birthdays if you’re looking for something new to read.” Guest blogger Lara continues with her look at author’s celebrating their birthdays in November….

Nadine Gordimer celebrates her birthday on November 20. Gordimer is from South Africa, and served as a member of the African National Congress at one point. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991, and the Swedish Academy commented in their press release that “Gordimer writes with intense immediacy about the extremely complicated personal and social relationships in her environment.” Gordimer has been writing about race relations in South Africa for almost sixty years. Her most recent work is Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (2007).