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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?

30 minutes

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Role Contributor
Presenter Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Nadine Gordimer

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