Nadine Gordimer
1923 – 2014 · South Africa · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991
Novelist of apartheid's moral interior; banned repeatedly at home.
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- J. M. Coetzee
1940 · Literature
The South African novel of complicity is the tradition Coetzee sharpens.
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