How many books have you read by 1991 literature laureate Nadine Gordimer? Gordimer's works include novels, short stories, and essays. During the 1960s and 1970s Gordimer wrote a number of novels set against the backdrop of the emerging resistance movement against apartheid, while the liberated South Africa provides the backdrop for her later works, written in the 1990s. The stories of individuals are always at the center of her narratives, in relation to external limitations and frameworks. As a

🇿🇦South African Jewish writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She was an active voice in the country against apartheid. Part of a WJC series profiling incredible Jewish women leaders. | World Jewish Congress