The following essay is included in John Freeman's How to Read a Novelist and reproduced here, in its entirety, in honor of the late Nadine Gordimer, who died in Johannesburg on July 13th, 2014.
Nadine Gordimer read her way into political awareness. Not much later, she wrote her way into antiracist activism, winning the Booker Prize for her 1974 novel, The Conservationist. When apartheid fell apart, it was speculated that her work would lose a certain vitality. Yet since 1994, the year South Africa had its first free elections, she has published ten books, adapting her focus, again, as the country's problems shifted to the AIDS epidemic, poverty, and crime.
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