Celebrated South African author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer died today at the age of 90. Gordimer was not just a writer but a political activist whose works were banned during Apartheid.
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According to reports, the author died in her sleep last night.
“She was 90 years old, will be lovingly remembered by her family, friends and literary colleagues,” her family said in a statement.
Since the new broke, South Africans have flocked to social media to express their thoughts and well wishes to the family.
SA has generations of writers and political activists whose success and/or survival is attributable to #NadineGordimer.Lala kahle qhawekazi
— Nomfundo Shezi (@SheziNomfundo) July 14, 2014
Perfectly said @epwa66: #NadineGordimer She was called one of the great "guerrillas of the imagination" by the poet Seamus Heaney"
— Margie Orford (@MargieOrford) July 14, 2014
RIP to the courageous #NadineGordimer pic.twitter.com/J1Dgn2ooTL
— COSMOPOLITAN SA (@CosmopolitanSA) July 14, 2014
“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” #NadineGordimer
— Mandy Wiener (@MandyWiener) July 14, 2014
#RestInPeace South African writer, political activist #NadineGordimer
— Ruth Etyang (@RuthEtyang) July 14, 2014
Apartheid foe, an African lioness, a magician with words.. RIP #NadineGordimer
— Nayanika Chakraborty (@nayanika_c) July 14, 2014
#NadineGordimer: "Writing is making sense of life" pic.twitter.com/D2bZ6noYzE
— Axel Buhrmann (@AxelBuhrmann) July 14, 2014
Image: David Goldblatt
