{"id":105558,"date":"2015-11-20T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=105558"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T08:58:43","slug":"10-things-we-love-about-nadine-gordimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/20\/10-things-we-love-about-nadine-gordimer\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things We Love About Nadine Gordimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nadine Gordimer is so legendary, when you Google her name today, you&#8217;ll find her <a href=\".google.co.za\/webhp?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Google Doodle <\/a>as a tribute. She was not only a multiple award-winning South African writer and poet, but also a political activist and feminist icon that stood for equality and democracy. As a tribute to her on her <a href=\"https:\/\/springsadvertiser.co.za\/106091\/birthday-week-nadine-gordimer\/\">birthday<\/a>, we countdown some of things that make her one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/springsadvertiser.co.za\/95674\/resident-remembers-nadine-gordimer\/\">greats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105612\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-9.48.39-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88513\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-9.48.39-AM-520x289.png\" alt=\"Google's Nadine Gordimer doodle\" width=\"520\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google&#8217;s Nadine Gordimer doodle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Nadine Gordimer was a bonafide child genius having started writing at the age if nine. Her first published work, children&#8217;s short story The Quest For Seen Gold, appeared in the Children&#8217;s Sunday Express<i> <\/i>in 1937. Come Again Tomorrow was published in the liberal Johannesburg magazine, Forum at the age of 15. She already showed signs of being extraordinary from an early age.<\/li>\n<li>Growing up in Springs on the East Rand features heavily in Gordimer&#8217;s work and although she delved deeper into her experiences much later in her literature, her insight into the spectral differences between black and white are astounding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105613\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-lecturing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88510\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-lecturing-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine Gordimer- Image by \u00a9 Morgenstern, Klaus\/dpa\/Corbis\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine Gordimer- Image by \u00a9 Morgenstern, Klaus\/dpa\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Nadine Gordimer was never afraid to confront the uncomfortable subjects in her novels. She addressed her own white privilege at a time when that term wasn&#8217;t trendy. She also dealt with conflicting relationships and apartheid in South Africa like no other female writer and for that, we salute her chutzpah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VWcxSsd8N2M' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Although many of her works were banned by the apartheid government, they were widely read elsewhere around the world increasing her notoriety in South Africa and fame overseas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105615\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88508\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-books-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Books by the author Nadine Gordimer are seen on a bookstore shelf in New York.  Image by \u00a9 Richard Levine\/Demotix\/Corbis\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Books by the author Nadine Gordimer are seen on a bookstore shelf in New York. Image by \u00a9 Richard Levine\/Demotix\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though the ANC was listed as an illegal organization by the South African government, she still joined in the fight to address inequality and institutionalized racism rather than merely criticizing it from afar.<\/li>\n<li>She said that her proudest day of her life was testifying at the 1986 Delmas Treason Trial on behalf of 22 South African anti-apartheid activists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105616\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-Nadine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88507\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-Nadine-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"29 May 1993, Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa: Nelson Mandela and author Nadine Gordimer sing National Liberation Anthem at Ghandi Memorial \" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">29 May 1993, Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa: Nelson Mandela and author Nadine Gordimer sing National Liberation Anthem at Ghandi Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>She has at least 15 honorary degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105617\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-harvard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88506\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-harvard-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine Gordimer at Harvard University with Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka Image by \u00a9 Rick Friedman\/Rick Friedman Photography\/Corbis\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine Gordimer at Harvard University with Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka Image by \u00a9 Rick Friedman\/Rick Friedman Photography\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>HIV\/Aids became a focus for Gordimer later in life and she even organised 20 major writers to contribute short fiction for Telling Tales, a fundraising book for South Africa&#8217;s Treatment Action Campaign, which lobbies for government funding for HIV\/Aids prevention and care.<\/li>\n<li>Alfred Nobel called her \u201cA Great Benefit to Humanity\u201d and she not only won the famous Nobel Prize for Literature, but also won the Booker Prize, W. H Smith Commonwealth Literary Award, International Botev Prize and many more.<\/li>\n<li>She loved cats and cats loved her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105614\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-cats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88509\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/11\/Corbis-nadine-cats-314x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine Gordimer Holding Cat  Image by \u00a9 William Campbell\/Sygma\/Corbis\" width=\"314\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine Gordimer Holding a cat. Image by \u00a9 William Campbell\/Sygma\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='47b1cfd1beb87a1e62dff829f3016933'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late literary legend Nadine Gordimer from Springs, East Rand, would&#8217;ve turned 92 today. The 1991 Nobel Prize Laureate was a magnificent force in South African literature, political activism and an inspiration to us all. To celebrate her life, here are 10 things we love about her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[978,1749,3974,3975,9026,6889],"class_list":["post-105558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-birthday","tag-books","tag-literature","tag-nadine-gordimer","tag-nobel-prize","tag-poetry"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["birthday","books","literature","nadine gordimer","nobel prize","poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}