Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Nadine Gordimer
Born: November 20, 1923
Died: July 13, 2014 (aged 90)
Bio: Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
- July's People (1981)
- Burger's Daughter (1979)
- Le conservateur (1974)
- The Pickup (2001)
- My Son's Story (1990)
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