Nadine Gordimer gets away with it, but she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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In a further initiative, African writers are preparing a book, coordinated by Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Novelist Nadine Gordimer, who calls Mahlasela a "national treasure, " took an interest in him at an early age and arranged guitar lessons.

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In a career spanning over half a century the South African novelist and anti-apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer has written extensively about her country's political and social upheavals.

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The agenda has not impressed a group of African and European writers, ranging from the South African, Nadine Gordimer, and the Nigerian Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, to the Czech president, Vaclav Havel.

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It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison.

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This year, for the first time, a "long list" of eligible novelists was made public and included Melvyn Bragg, Nick Hornby, Nadine Gordimer, VS Naipaul and Marina Warner, all of whom were later rejected by the panel.

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