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Nadine Gordimer

author
Born: 11/20/1923
Birthplace: South Africa

Nobel Prize-winning author whose novels and stories explore the domestic realities of life under apartheid. Her works include The Lying Days (1953), A Guest of Honor (1970), Burger's Daughter (1979), and None to Accompany Me (1994).


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