The writer leaves behind profoundly affecting artistic and political legacies — in both her native South Africa and beyond. By Jake Flanagin Ms. Gordimer, the South African writer who received the ...

Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Nadine Gordimer, who died Sunday at age 90, understood the power of writing as a moral force. Not only in terms of literature (although that too) but also politically, in a country -- apartheid-era ...

Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel Prize-winning author famed for her portrayals of South Africa under apartheid, died Sunday, her family said in a statement. She was 90. Gordimer was considered a modern ...

Not long after Nadine Gordimer’s death was announced Monday, her words began to circle the globe. The South African Nobel laureate was born at a time when the telegraph was the quickest form of ...

Nobel Prize winner Gordimer's novel follows two couples, one black, one white, and their evolving interaction with each other and with society during the unraveling of South African apartheid. (Oct.) ...

Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African author and anti-apartheid activist, died Sunday, her family said Monday. She was 90. Gordimer died peacefully in her sleep, according to a ...

When Nadine Gordimer heard last week that she had won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, the South African novelist thought it her second great thrill in the past two years. The first was Nelson ...

"I am not a political person by nature," Nadine Gordimer once said. "I don't suppose, if I had lived elsewhere, my writing would have reflected politics." Gordimer was born in South Africa in the ...

Nadine Gordimer, a South African author who won the Nobel Prize for novels that explored the cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa, has died at the age of 90, her family said Monday.

Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked. By Adam Nossiter The ...

Nadine Gordimer, a South African author who won the Nobel Prize for novels that explored the cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa, has died at the age of 90. The African National ...