South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90.<\/p>\n
The writer, who was one of the literary world’s most powerful voices against apartheid – died at her home after a short illness, her family said.<\/p>\n
She wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son’s Story, Burger’s Daughter and July’s People.<\/p>\n
She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.<\/p>\n
‘She cared most deeply’<\/p>\n
The Nobel committee said at the time it was honouring Gordimer for her “magnificent epic writing” which had been “of very great benefit to humanity”.<\/p>\n
Writing from an early age, the author published her first story – Come Again Tomorrow – in a Johannesburg magazine at just 15.<\/p>\n
Her works comprised both novels and short stories where the consequences of apartheid, exile and alienation were the major themes.<\/p>\n
Gordimer’s family said she “cared most deeply about South Africa, its culture, its people, and its ongoing struggle to realise its new democracy”.<\/p>\n
Committed to fighting apartheid, the author was a leading member of the African National Congress and fought for the release of Nelson Mandela. They went on to become firm friends.<\/p>\n
A number of her books were banned by the South African government under the apartheid regime including 1966’s The Late Bourgeois World and 1979’s Burger’s Daughter.<\/p>\n
Her last novel, No Time Like the Present, published in 2012, follows veterans of the battle against apartheid as they deal with the issues facing modern South Africa.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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