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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.
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Jul 13, 2014 · Nadine Gordimer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991. 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”
Learn about the life and works of Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 for her novels and short stories. Find out her biography, awards, publications and addendum from the official NobelPrize.org website.
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...
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 13, 2014 · Learn about the life and work of Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer who chronicled the struggle against apartheid. Explore her early influences, her literary career, her activism, and her legacy.
