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Art & the State in South Africa

For Nadine Gordimer in 1983, the arts in South Africa were simply “the sum of various states of alienation.”

Nadine Gordimer

July 14, 2014

Novelist Nadine Gordimer was among about 300 white liberals who visited a black township near Johannesburg on May 18, 1986, to lay wreaths at the grave of victims of political unrest. Gordimer passed away July 14 at the age of 90. (Reuters)

Nadine Gordimer


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