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Happy Birthday, Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
November 20, 2009
Writer Nadine Gordimer has devoted her life to fighting for the rights and health of the less fortunate and oppressed. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 for showing “the true power of words,” having written 14 novels and 11 collections of short stories.
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