Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 with the motivation “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”.
On 5 October we will discover this year’s literature laureate.
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Nadine Gordimer and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1991.
Photo from the Lars Åström archive