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Gordimer

[ gawr-duh-mer ]

noun

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


Gordimer

/ ˈɡɔːdɪmə /

noun

  1. GordimerNadine1923FSouth AfricanWRITING: novelist 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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But it has many defenders, including author Nadine Gordimer.

Nadine Gordimer once called Phillips “the best short-story writer since Eudora Welty.”

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