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A South African-born author, human rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. Her first story was published when she was 15 years old. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, Gordimer taught at various universities in the United States. Her novels focus on the effects of apartheid on South Africa and on the strained relations between whites and blacks. Some of her books were banned by the apartheid regime. In 1980, she was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
