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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a South African short story writer, novelist, playwright, and political activist. She was born in Transvaal. Nadine's works revolved around social cruelty and hypocrisy in South Africa and problems between the races. South Africa banned Nadine's works. Nadine won Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • There's nothing moral about beauty.
- The Late Bourgeois World
  • Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
  • It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women, a new job, a new town, a divorce - which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative. ...
- The Lying Days
  • The poem or the story or the novel must follow a certain line. It is a kind of party line, even though what is in question is not a political party; but it is, in the true sense of the word, a party line.

Ousmane Sembene

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