No Time Like the Present

A Note About the Author

Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize; Get a Life; Burger’s Daughter; July’s People; My Son’s Story; and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot, and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.