Beyond Art...

The following links are about writers who went beyond the mere purpose of writing and revelling in the arts. This post also serves as the reference section for the article "Writers of the Issue" in the May 2006 issue of Alvibest:

Nadine Gordimer
Biography on the United Nations Development Programme web page
< http://www.undp.org.za/docs/misc/gordimerbio.html >
Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience by Per Wastberg in the Nobel Prize site
< http://nobelprize.org/literature/articles/wastberg/index.html >
Stephen Clingman's book The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870238027/sr=8-4/qid=1145600166/ref=sr_1_4/104-8913949-8041519?_encoding=UTF8 >
Her Paris Review interview
< http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3060 >
full version of the above interview available in the book Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (edited by George Plimpton)
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679771298/104-8913949-8041519?v=glance&n=283155 >

Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter's website
< http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/index.shtml >
The sensational Nobel Lecture
< http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html >
The Paris Review Interview, Fall 1966
< http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4351 >

Gao Xingian
Biography on the Nobel Prize website
< http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2000/gao-bio.html >
An article on Gao in the BBC after his Nobel prize win.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/010316_xingian.shtml >
Soul Mountain in the Amazon website
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066210828/nobelprizeintern/104-8913949-8041519 >

Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi's website (in Persian)
< http://www.shirinebadi.ir/index.htm >
Ebadi's book Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope releases in the US this May
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400064708/104-8913949-8041519?v=glance&n=283155 >
An excerpt from one of Shirin Ebadi's books on Women's rights
< http://www.badjens.com/ebadi.html >
PeaceWomen interview
< http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Iran/October03/interview.html >

Wikipedia (< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page >) has individual pages on all the authors featured


References to other articles and writers mentioned in "Writers of the Issue"
Arundhati Roy's interview to the Deccan Herald <http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr42006/update75259200644.asp
John Pilger's article in Mail & Guardian Online <http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2005/2005oct/051021-silence.html>
Website of The Nobel Prize in Literature < http://nobelprize.org/literature/ >