Stephen Clingman

Stephen Clingman is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; he has also held fellowships at a variety of institutions internationally. His books include The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside and an edited collection of essays by Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, translated into a number of languages. Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, was co-winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier prize for non-fiction. Other books include The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary, and Birthmark, a memoir. Stephen was commissioned to write the text of William Kentridge, the catalogue/book of Kentridge’s 2022 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and a new book on and with Kentridge is forthcoming from Skira Editore in 2025.