Nadine Gordimer obituary
Nobel prizewinnng South African writer who spoke out against apartheid and racial inequality
Dennis WalderMonday 14 July 2014
South Africa has produced several writers of stature in the past half century, but few have approached the achievement of Nadine Gordimer, who has died aged 90. A significant figure in world literature, Gordimer plumbed the depths of human interaction in a society of racial tension, political oppression and sexual unease. The connection between the intimate and the public lay at the heart of her work, an apparently inexhaustible stream of novels, short stories and essays.
