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Nadine Gordimer


South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.
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Nadine Gordimer
Myth was the mystery plus the fantasy — gods, anthropomorphized animals and birds, chimera, phantasmagorical creatures — that posits out of the imagination some sort of explanation for the mystery. Humans and their fellow creatures were the materiality of the story, but as Nikos Kazantzakis once wrote, 'Art is the representation not of the body but of the forces which created the body.'
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