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Prestige, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Nadine Gordimer
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Bloomsbury
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747592334
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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 ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation. She received the Booker Prize for *The Conservationist* (1974), and the Central News Agency Literary Award for *The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter* (1979) and *July's People* (1981). Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as *Burger's Daughter* were banned. She was activ
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