Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist, born in 1923 and died in 2014, whose novels and short stories addressed the moral and racial injustices of apartheid South Africa across a career of more than six decades. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for her novel The Conservationist, and in 1991 she received the Nobel Prize in Literature, honored, in the Swedish Academy's words, as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity." A committed anti-apartheid activist, Gordimer joined the African National Congress while it was banned under apartheid law and assisted Nelson Mandela in preparing the speech he delivered at his 1964 trial.
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AwardNobel Prize in Literature, 1991; also awarded the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist. 1 Classification
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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923-13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist.
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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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