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Gordimer

American  
[gawr-duh-mer] / ˈgɔr də mər /

noun

  1. Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.


Gordimer British  
/ ˈɡɔːdɪmə /

noun

  1. Nadine. born 1923, South African novelist. Her books include The Lying Days (1952), The Conservationist (1974), which won the Booker prize, None to Accompany Me (1994), and The House Gun (1998). Her works were banned in South Africa for their condemnation of apartheid. Nobel prize for literature 1991

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He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer and J.M.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

Galgut is the third writer from South Africa to win the Booker, following Nadine Gordimer and Coetzee, who has won twice.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

She was “trying to write other people’s books in other people’s voices”; Bertolt Brecht inspired one, Nadine Gordimer another, “but in all of them I was faking it in every sentence”.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2019

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it,” Nadine Gordimer once observed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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