“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”

— Nadine Gordimer

As quoted at ContemporaryWriters.com http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618

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South african Nobel-winning writer 1923–2014

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