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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer b1923
Viewing the Century
18 October 1998  Radio 3

Nadine Gordimer talks to Anthony Sampson about

   Audiogrowing up in South Africa, how society shaped her character, her joy of the library and the separation of whites from blacks  5 min 50

   Audioinspiration from the "heroes" of South Africa, her fascination with the ordinary  2 min 24

   Audiowriting since the fall of Apartheid, the rise of personal ambitions and the lack of the common enemy, the loss of community since moving out of the ghettos  1 min 51

   Audiothe cross cultural development in South Africa and its cultural significance in the rest of the world  2 min 39


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Nadine Gordimer
South African novelist and short-story writer

Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Gordimer writes in a controlled, unsentimental style that contrasts with her subject matter of exile and alienation.
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