Nadine Gordimer Birthday, Age & Famous Birthday Twins
Born: 20 November 1923 · Died: 13 July 2014 · Age: 90
South African novelist of Burger's Daughter and July's People who exposed apartheid and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?Several of her books were banned by the South African government during the apartheid era due to their political content.
Quick facts
Date of birth20 November 1923
Date of death13 July 2014
Age at death90
NationalitySouth African
BirthplaceSprings, South Africa
Occupationpoet, writer, novelist
Editor's Take:
Nadine Gordimer wrote some of the most powerful fiction against apartheid. Born to immigrant parents in a mining town near Johannesburg, she began publishing stories as a teenager. Her novels expose how racism twisted ordinary lives, both Black and white. Several were banned by the South African government, including Burger's Daughter. She joined the African National Congress when it was still illegal. She helped Nelson Mandela edit his famous speech from the dock. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 and the Nobel Prize in 1991.
Key Milestones
1953: The Lying Days – novel
1974: The Conservationist – Booker Prize
1979: Burger's Daughter – banned
1981: July's People – novel
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has...
