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Anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer dies
By Ndundu Sithole JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an unwavering moralist who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on Monday. Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, died at her Johannesburg home on Sunday … Read more