Giles Gordon

Standard Name: Gordon, Giles

Connections

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Textual Features Helen Dunmore
About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...
Anthologization Nadine Gordimer
NG began writing short stories while working on her first novel; she published two hundred of them.
Brockes, Emma. “A Life in Books. Nadine Gordimer”. The Guardian, pp. Review 12 - 13.
Review 12
Walder, Dennis. “Nadine Gordimer obituary”. theguardian.com.
She began their international publication in the New Yorker and the Yale Review, and spread...
Friends, Associates Bessie Head
The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon , her editor at Gollancz, Tom Carvlin of the Chicago Tribune, and London journalist Paddy Kitchen (and...
Friends, Associates Bessie Head
Her friendships with Giles Gordon and Paddy Kitchen each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH 's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
281-2, 285-6
She had...
Textual Features Bessie Head
Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also...
Publishing Bessie Head
From the beginning BH sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press.
168, 176
Sure enough, both Giles Gordon and Hilary Rubinstein , her agent at the time, felt it was...
Publishing Bessie Head
Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH 's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba 's music and...
Textual Production Bessie Head
In August 1980 BH submitted to Giles Gordon , who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of...
Textual Production Bessie Head
Giles Gordon had suggested she write a village book of the genre of Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village or Ronald Blythe 's Akenside. She would need, he said, to impose a...
Publishing Bessie Head
The book finished, the process of publication unexpectedly spun out into a nightmare. Trouble began when BH requested 94 free copies for her to give, as she had promised, to the people she interviewed. Reg Davis-Poynter
Publishing Bessie Head
Meanwhile Giles Gordon well-meaningly but rashly raised with BH the question of her tax situation in Botswana. The publishers came up with a complicated arrangement to keep costs down, whereby Bateleur Press would be the...
Anthologization Mary Lavin
Sarah from this volume (dated 1943) was reprinted in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980, 1982, edited by Giles Gordon .
Literary responses Penelope Mortimer
The adjectives chosen for these twelve stories by Giles Gordon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are luminous, incisive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
At the time of publication they were praised in the Times and the Times...
Textual Features Penelope Mortimer
This takes the story of her life until her twenty-first birthday, treating herself (says critic Giles Gordon ) rather severely.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
26
Literary responses Penelope Mortimer
Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

Timeline

1965: Giles Gordon did a series of interviews for...

Women writers item

1965

Giles Gordon did a series of interviews for The Scotsman with female authors: a species of writer that at the time wasn't particularly recognised, although it certainly had been in the previous century.

Texts

Duffy, Maureen. “A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square”. Factions, edited by Giles Gordon and Alex Hamilton, Michael Joseph, 1974, pp. 169-04.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Beyond the Words. Hutchinson, 1975.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, 2001, p. vii - xiv.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980. J. M. Dent, 1982.
Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26.
Gordon, Giles. “Reading Ann Quin’s Berg”. Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture.