{South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90.}
The writer, who was one of the literary world’s most powerful voices against apartheid – died at her home after a short illness, her family said.
She wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son’s Story, Burger’s Daughter and July’s People.
She jointly won 1974’s Booker Prize for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
‘She cared most deeply’
The Nobel committee said at the time it was honouring Gordimer for her “magnificent epic writing” which had been “of very great benefit to humanity”.
The daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish watchmaker, she began writing from an early age. Gordimer published her first story – Come Again Tomorrow – in a Johannesburg magazine at just 15.
Her works comprised both novels and short stories where the consequences of apartheid, exile and alienation were the major themes.
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