Nadine Gordimer, a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs.
As an opponent of apartheid, she has written non-fiction books on various South African subjects and made TV documentaries and collaborated with her son Hugo Cassirer on the television film Choosing Justice: Allan Boesak.
Gordimer’s subject matter has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and psychological tensions of life in a racially-divided country.
She often wrote about apartheid by focusing on oppressed Black characters.
Read her obituary here.
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