South African novelist and political activist Nadine Gordimer, aged 90, died in her home in Johannesburg last Sunday.
Her family confirmed the sad news, saying that Nadine passed away after a brief illness.
In 1991 she won the Nobel prize for Literature for her
novels and short stories exploring the drama of racial segregation and
white-minority rule in South Africa before anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela
took office in 1994.
Nadine Gordimer was a member of the African National
Congress at a time when it was illegal and she was one of the first people Nelson Mandela asked to see when he was
released from prison in 1990.
"She cared most deeply about South Africa, its
culture, its people and its on-going struggle to realise its new
democracy," the family statement said.
