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Nadine Gordimer (20 November – 13 July ) was a South African writer, Nobel Prize winner, and an outspoken anti-apartheid activist.
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She was born in Springs, South Africa to Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was from Latvia and her mother from England. Her father had been a refugee from Tsarist Russia. Though he was not notably sympathetic to the Black struggle under apartheid in South Africa, his experience of displacement influenced Gordimer's politics.
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Gordimer’s mother, however, was sympathetic to the Black struggle, particularly on the issues of poverty and discrimination. She opened a daycare for Black children. Due to her mother’s activism, her family home was raided by the police.
Gordimer went to a Catholic convent school, but her mother kept her home for extended periods due to an unfounded fear of Gordimer’s weak heart. It was in her home-bound social isolation that Gordimer began to write, publishing her first stories in at the age of Her first published work was a shor