Literature · Reflection
Nadine Gordimer ~ How To Make Sense Of Life…
18 February 2019
Nadine Gordimer
“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.”
Nadine Gordimer (born 1923, South Africa – died 2014, South Africa)
“Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognised as a woman “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”
She was one of the most prominent literary voices for political freedom and racial equality in South Africa.
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