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Nadine Gordimer

South African writer

South Africa · 1923–2014

Arts and letters

Nadine Gordimer, 88, was born in Springs, South Africa. She published her first collection of stories in 1949. An anti-apartheid activist, she joined the ANC when the organisation was illegal, and some of her novels were banned in South Africa. In 1974 she won the Booker prize for The Conservationist and in 1991 won the Nobel prize for literature. Her new novel is No Time Like The Present, and on Wednesday she discusses her life and work at the Southbank Centre, London. She is widowed and lives in Johannesburg.

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