Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991, announced October 3, 1991. Nadine Gordimer, “who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity”. Nadine Gordimer: born 1923, Springs, South Africa. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).