{"id":15354,"date":"2014-07-15T03:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/another-apartheid-fighter-dies-at-90\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T03:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:20:55","slug":"another-apartheid-fighter-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/another-apartheid-fighter-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Apartheid fighter dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

{South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90.}<\/p>\n

\"Nadine<\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

She wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son’s Story, Burger’s Daughter and July’s People.<\/p>\n

She jointly won 1974’s Booker Prize for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
\n‘She cared most deeply’<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Her works comprised both novels and short stories where the consequences of apartheid, exile and alienation were the major themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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