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Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
Stephen Sackur asks Nobel Prize winning Nadine Gordimer, one of South Africa's greatest writers, if South Africa today is what she hoped it would be?
Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's greatest writers, whose fiction offers a compelling insight into the country's troubled past and complex present. She has been showered with honours including the Nobel Prize for Literature. She has also faced harassment and condemnation. Several of her novels were banned by the apartheid regime. Her personal commitment to the liberation struggle never wavered. Stephen Sackur asks her if South Africa today is what she hoped it would be?
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Tue 10 May 2011
23:30GMT
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Stephen Sackur |
Interviewed Guest | Nadine Gordimer |
Broadcasts
- Tue 10 May 2011 03:30GMT
- Tue 10 May 2011 23:30GMT