The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
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Nadine Gordimer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 was awarded to Nadine Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity."
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