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Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer

Author · born November 20, 1923 · died 2014

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Nadine Gordimer 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".

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  1. ~51Received the Booker Prize1974
  2. ~68Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1991

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