Publication details of Something Out There:

Published in 1984

Other literary works include:

Face to Face (1949)
Late Bourgeois World (1966)
No Place Like (1979)
Crimes of Conscience (1991)

Born:

20th of November, 1923 in Springs, South Africa

Early years:

She was born into a well-off family.

Schooling:

After being educated at a convent school, she studied at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Career:

Gordimer began writing at the age of nine and her first short story was published in South African magazine when she was only fifteen. Her first collection of short stories, Face to Face was published ten years later in 1949. She has now published ten novels and seven collcetion of short stories, as well as a few volumes of literary criticism and in addition, a large number of articles, speeches and lectures on different subjects. Some of her books have at times been banned in her country. In 1974 she won the Booker Prize for The Conservationist, and in 1991 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the Vice President of International P.E.N.

Final years:

Died: