Author · South Africa
Nadine Gordimer
Died in 2014
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a mining town in the Transvaal, the daughter of a Jewish watchmaker from the Baltic countries and a mother born in London. She published her first short story at thirteen and wrote more than two hundred. Several of her books were banned by the apartheid censors. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, the first South African woman to do so, and died at her home in Johannesburg on 13 July 2014, aged ninety.
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- NovelThe ConservationistNadine Gordimer · 1974Literature