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The day ends on a sad note indeed. The great committed South African novelist Nadine Gordiner died today at age 90. The Washington Post has a lovely clip from an interview with her on how she began to shed the racist world in which she grew up, what she calls my way to freedom. Go check it out, if you loved her novels. Tom Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer and Nobel laureate for literature whose intense, intimate prose helped expose apartheid to a global readership and who continued to illuminate the brutality and beauty of her country long after the demise of the racist government, died July 13 at her home in Johannesburg. She was 90. Her family announced the death but did not disclose the cause. Ms. Gordimer, who was white, was an early and active member of the African National Congress, but she did not craft political manifestos. Her role as an author, she said, was simply to write in my own way as honestly as I can and go as deeply as I can into the life around me.” washingtonpost/world/africa/obituary-nadine-gordimer-nobel-laureate-exposed-toll-of-south-africas-apartheid/2014/07/14/2f4a78ae-56d8-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html?hpid=z4
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:39:40 +0000

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