RIP Nadine Gordimer (1923 - 2014)

We are saddened to learn that South African writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer passed away yesterday at the age of 90.
Gordimer is the only African woman to have won the Noble Prize for Literature (1991). She also received the Booker Prize in 1974 for her novel The Conservationist. Born to Jewish immigrants in apartheid South Africa, she was staunchly opposed to racial discrimination and edited fellow South African icon Nelson Mandela's defendant's speech 'I Am Prepared To Die' given during the Rivonia Trial in 1964. Her anti-apartheid stance led to her works being banned by the South African government, but this did not shake her commitment to the cause. Her last book, Life Times: Stories, was published in 2011. Watch below a short film of Gordimer made by 21 Icons, a project celebrating "the lives of 21 extraordinary South Africans who have captured the global imagination with their dignity, humanity, hard work and selfless struggle for a better world." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduULvXdPS4 Have you read any of Gordimer's works? Share your favourites in the comments.