Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was born in South Africa. She received numerous international prizes for her writing, including the Modern Language Association Award, the Bennett Award, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She was given honoary degrees by Yale, Harvard, and other universities and was honored by the French government with the decoration Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Read More Read Less