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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was known as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".^[1] She was of Jewish descent.

Gordimer's writing helped abolishing apartheid in South Africa.^[2] She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned.

Later on she was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.

Gordimer was one of 20 Nobel Laureates^[3] who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.^[4] Gordimer was born near Springs, a small town outside of Johannesburg on 20 November 1923.^[5]

Gordimer died on 13 July 2014 at the age of 90.^[6][7]