CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE - Nadine Gordimer (Springs, 1923 - Johannesburg, 2014) - A

Nadine Gordimer (Springs, 1923 - Johannesburg, 2014)4 typed letters signed; 1 publishing contract signed by the South African writer and political activist, whose work on moral and racial issues during South Africa’s apartheid regime resulted in her receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.Four typed letters signed to Rolando Pieraccini about Eurographica’s publication of the short story collection A Correspondence Course and other Stories (1986).1st November, 1985. Acknowledging the receipt of the book’s frontispieces: "I received the frontispiece pages of A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE and other stories a week ago only, and have today despatched them, all duly signed according to your instructions in your letter (...) I am leaving in a week for Europe, first to attend a conference in England, then to go to Hungary, and on to Germany where I have I just been told I am to receive something called the Nelly Sachs Prize". 1 p., on aerogram.17th March, 1987. Thanking Pieraccini for the copies of her books he sent her: "I think the book looks most elegant – if only my commercially-produced books could look like that!". 1 p., on aerogram.3rd June, 1987. Agreement to the publication of another signed limited edition of her "stories" adding that: "It would, indeed, make things much simpler if you could bring the frontispiece pages to South Africa. (...) All I can say is that for visitors there is no more danger than there is, say, in London, with the threat of running into an IRA bomb, or in Paris, where some Middle-Eastern conflict may surface violently in a café or department store". 1 p., on aerogram.15th July, 1987. Discussing a title for a future publication of a new collection of stories: "To accompany The Train From Rhodesia I would suggest A Lion on The Freeway (from A Soldier’s Embrace), At the Rendezvous of Victory (from Something Out There), and/or Some Monday For Sure (from Selected Stories). I would not agree to the book being given the title The Train From Rhodesia because there is no longer any such country (...) I would suggest A Lion on the Freeway as a good title, or At the Rendezvous of Victory". 1 p., on aerogram.Publishing contract with Eurographica for the volume "A Correspondence Course and other stories" dated 6th of September 1985, signed with initials on the first and last page, fully signed on the second page.