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Portrait image of Nadine Gordimer Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2010)

Gordimer, Nadine

Country/Region:
South Africa
Born:
November 20, 1923
Dead:
July 13, 2014
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose
South-African novelist born in Springs, now in the province of Gauteng, (part of what was formerly the Transvaal), not far from Johannesburg. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller from Latvia , then part of the Russian Empire, who had fled the Russian pogroms. Gordimer's mother, Nan Myers, was born in Britain, but had emigrated with her Jewish family as a child. Both parents were secularised Jews.

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