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Nadine Gordimer
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was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a small mining town near Johannesburg in South Africa, which turned out to be the setting for Gordimer's first novel, The Lying Days (1953). Her father was a Jewish jeweler originally from Latvia and her mother of British descent. She was educated in a co ....
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..... She has been continually involved on behalf of literature and free speech in a police state, where censorship and persecution of books and people exist. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, and she is one of only nine women to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she did in 1991. She has received honorary doctorates abroad, but declined one in South Africa. She also holds various positions; she is for example, Vice President of International P E.N. She was also a foun.... |
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