Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)

Awarded the Prize “for who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.”

South African writer. Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs near Johannesburg. She studied at the University of Witwatersr without taking a degree. But she began to write at the age of nine, her first short story being published when she was only fifteen. She is Vice President of International P.E.N. Gordimer died on July 13, 2014 in Johannesburg.
Major Works:
Face to Face (1949); The Lying Days (1953); The Late Bourgeois World (1966); July’s People (1981); A Sport of Nature (1987)