AUTHORS OF THE WORLD.... NADINE GORDIMAR.... WATERCOLOUR.... 18CM*14CM ... 2014... Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity. Gordimers writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burgers Daughter and Julys People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes. Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė (then Russian Empire, now Lithuania), and her mother, Hannah Nan (Myers) Gordimer, was from London. Her mother was from an assimilated family of Jewish origins; Gordimer was raised in a secular household. In 1951, the New Yorker accepted Gordimers story A Watcher of the Dead, beginning a long relationship, and bringing Gordimers work to a much larger public. Gordimer, who said she believed the short story was the literary form for our age, continued to publish short stories in the New Yorker and other prominent literary journals. Gordimers first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. South African government banned several of her works, two for lengthy periods of time. The Late Bourgeois World was Gordimers first personal experience with censorship; it was banned in 1976 for a decade. A World of Strangers was banned for twelve years.. {INFO : WIKIPEDIA}
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