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Nadine Gordimer

1923 - 2014

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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadine Gordimer is the 324th most popular writer (up from 426th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 8th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Writer.

Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer who is most famous for her novels and short stories about the effects of apartheid on individuals.

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Among writers, Nadine Gordimer ranks 324 out of 7,302. Before her are Doris Lessing, Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, and Marguerite de Navarre. After her are Paul Celan, Colette, Anne Brontë, André Malraux, William Golding, and Callimachus.

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Among people born in 1923, Nadine Gordimer ranks 15. Before her are Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Irma Grese, and Italo Calvino. After her are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, György Ligeti, Marcel Marceau, and Mas Oyama. Among people deceased in 2014, Nadine Gordimer ranks 11. Before her are Ariel Sharon, Eduard Shevardnadze, Hiroo Onoda, Gough Whitlam, Claudio Abbado, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. After her are Eli Wallach, Joe Cocker, Luis Aragonés, Maximilian Schell, Shirley Temple, and Alexander Grothendieck.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 6 out of 454. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Nelson Mandela (1918), Elon Musk (1971), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), and J. M. Coetzee (1940). After her are Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 3. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), and J. M. Coetzee (1940). After her are Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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