Nadine Gordimer Quotes


The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.


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Nadine Gordimer, 1924-2014, South African Anti-Apartheid Writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature, "Great Problems in the Street," 1963

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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
  • Born: November 20, 1923
  • Died: July 13, 2014
  • Nationality: South African
  • Profession: Writer

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".