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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 , recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
Nadine Gordimer (born November 20, 1923, Springs, Transvaal [now in Gauteng], South Africa—died July 13, 2014, Johannesburg) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose major theme was exile and alienation. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Jul 13, 2014 · Born: 20 November 1923, Springs, South Africa. Died: 13 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa. Residence at the time of the award: South Africa. Prize motivation: “who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity” Language: English. Prize share: 1/1. Life.
Biographical. Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923. Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer. Has lived all her life, and continues to live, in South Africa. Principal works: 10 novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, A Sport of Nature, My Son’s Story and her most recent, None to Accompany Me.
Apr 26, 2001 · Nadine Gordimer, born in 1923 and, in Seamus Heaney‘s words, one of “the guerrillas of the imagination,” became the first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Jul 14, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Sunday in...
Nadine Gordimer paints a complex portrait of dangerously deluded and wilfully ignorant privilege, set in South Africa during the time of apartheid. Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
Jul 14, 2014 · South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90. The writer, who was one of the literary world's most powerful voices against apartheid - died at her...
Jul 13, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer. Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng ), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her ...
Jul 14, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel Prize-winning author famed for her portrayals of South Africa under apartheid, died Sunday, her family said in a statement. She was 90.
