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Nadine Gordimer

HARDtalk: Nadine Gordimer 

10/05/2011 GMT

Nadine Gordimer 

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Nadine Gordimer

In 2011, Stephen Sackur spoke to South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who died on Sunday.

The literary world is in mourning today after the death of South African writer Nadine Gordimer. In 2011, HARDtalk asked her if modern South Africa was what she hoped it would be?

The literary world was in mourning on Monday following the death of Nadine Gordimer,�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 she also faced harassment and condemnation. Several of her novels were banned by the apartheid regime but her personal commitment to the liberation struggle never wavered. In 2011 Stephen Sackur asked her if modern South Africa was what she hoped it would be?

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