Editing Nadine Gordimer (section)

===Family background===
Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her father's experience as a refugee from Tsarist Russia helped form Gordimer's political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic toward the experiences of black people under apartheid.<ref name="Telegraph">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080207032259/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2003%2F06%2F01%2Fbogor.xml&sSheet=%2Farts%2F2003%2F06%2F01%2Fbomain.html A Writer's Life: Nadine Gordimer]", ''Telegraph'', 3 April 2006.</ref> Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa led her to found a [[Day care|crèche]] for black children.<ref name="Wastberg"/> Gordimer also witnessed government repression first-hand as a teenager; the police raided her family home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servant's room.<ref name="Wastberg"/>

Gordimer was educated at a [[Catholic school|Catholic]] [[convent school]], but was largely home-bound as a child because her mother, for "strange reasons of her own", did not put her into school (apparently, she feared that Gordimer had a weak heart).<ref name="Telegraph"/> Home-bound and often isolated, she began writing at an early age, and published her first stories in 1937 at the age of 13.<ref name = "Guardian">[http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,96530,00.html Nadine Gordimer], ''Guardian Unlimited'' (last visited 25 January 2007).</ref> Her first published work was a short story for children, "The Quest for Seen Gold", which appeared in the ''Children's Sunday Express'' in 1937; "Come Again Tomorrow", another children's story, appeared in ''Forum'' around the same time. At the age of 16, she had her first adult fiction published.<ref name="Anisfield-Wolf">[http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/newsarticle.cfm?articleID=586&PTSidebarOptID=126&returnTo=page469.cfm&returntoname=Winners&SiteID=29&pageid=272&sidepageid=469 Nadine Gordimer: ''A Sport of Nature'']{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.</ref> <!-- any discussion of her adult award-winning themes in early works? -->