Nadine Gordimer

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on different subjects. Some of her books have at times been banned in her native country. Since 1948 Gordimer has lived in Johannesburg and taught in the USA in several universities during the 1960s and '70s. She has also written books of non-fiction on South African subjects and made television documentaries.
has always aspired to live as a private individual outside the public eye. However her international fame and the many major awards which she has received have made it difficult. 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 ...

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