![]() ![]() Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her mother was from an assimilated family of Jewish origins Gordimer was raised in a secular household. ![]() Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė (then Russian Empire, now Lithuania), and her mother, Hannah "Nan" (Myers) Gordimer, was from London. ![]() She was the second daughter of her parents. Gordimer was born near Springs, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned, and gave Nelson Mandela advice on his famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life. ![]() Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has. Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. ![]()
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