ÁFRICA

 

Nadine Gordimer

 (1923-2014)

 She was born on November 20^th, 1923, in Springs province of Gauteng in South Africa. She died on 13^th July,2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied at the Witwatersrand University from Johannesburg but, she did not finish her studies.

Her father was a horologist from Lithuania and her mother was from London, their parents were Jewish. Nadine married two times, the first time she married in 1949 and the second time she married in 1954 with Reinhold Cassirer and they had a son.

Nadine was an African writer. She focused about the human behavior and the racial segregation in South Africa.  Thanks to her stories “Crimes of Conscience” and “Jump and Other Stories”, she won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, and she won the British Booker Prize with the novel The Conservationist too.

 

Nadine Gordimer was considered the principal representative of South Africa Literature of the 20^th century.