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HARDtalk: Nadine Gordimer, South African writer

14/05/2011

Nadine Gordimer, South African writer

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Stephen Sackur speaks to Nobel Prize-winning author, Nadine Gordimer, in 2011.

Stephen Sackur asks Nadine Gordimer, one of South Africa's greatest writers, if modern South Africa is what she hoped it would be. Recorded in April 2011.

Nadine Gordimer was one of South Africa's greatest writers, whose fiction offered a compelling insight into the country's troubled past and complex present. She was showered with honours including the Nobel Prize for literature, but also faced harassment and condemnation. While several of her novels were banned by the apartheid regime, her personal commitment to the liberation struggle never wavered. 

Stephen Sackur asks her if modern South Africa is what she hoped it would be. 

Recorded in April 2011.

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