English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1707 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nadine Gordimer
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The idea
Nadine Gordimer, a South African novelist and political activist who died in two thousand fourteen, wrote throughout her career on moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in nineteen ninety-one, recognized for her epic writing.
In practice
Fiction against apartheid.
Where people slip
Gordimer is a white South African writer.
Your place on the trail
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