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01 Nadine Gordimer - Place of Birth
02 Nadine Gordimer - Education
03 Nadine Gordimer - Marriages
04 Nadine Gordimer - Political Life and Friends
05 Nadine Gordimer - The 1960s and 70s
06 Nadine Gordimer - Activism and Professional Life
07 Nadine Gordimer - Awards Received
08 Nadine Gordimer - Her Attack
09 Nadine Gordimer - Biography Published
10 Nadine Gordimer - No Cold Kitchen
Nadine Gordimer Conclusion
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Nadine Gordimer, the greatest writer of all time
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and the first woman recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Her writings were about moral and racial issues in South Africa relating to apartheid. She also focused on personal and social relationships in her
environment relating to racial conflicts and pain inflicted by the country's unwarranted apartheid laws. Under the apartheid regime, two of her novels,
July People and Burger's Daughter, were banned. Nadine joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the days when the organisation was
banned in the 1960s. She assisted Nelson Mandela with his 1964 defence speech at the trial that led to his life imprisonment conviction. Nadine
Gordimer was an ethical writer in that the quest for the truth never left her; instead, it extended beyond her unspoken and courageous opposition to
apartheid censorship, as she witnessed all shortcomings of the post-apartheid period.
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