Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Nadine Gordimer born (20/11/1923) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:10:39 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:10:48 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="46f0ce6700ee98d8dc2e5ad5b275f28a"; logging-data="41864"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jnRNJG3zz2bVHj8fOqlQS5pLijeJHX6g=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RDh2Gf7ncPGq3wBXmPFCdZcN7PY= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1667 South African writer and political activist. Booker Prize 1974 for _The Conservationist_. Nobel Prize for Literature 1991. "The only thing I really regret...[is] just to have studied foreign languages and not learnt an African language. So like most other South Africans , there I am sitting with my black friends and we're all talking in English, and then I may go out of the room perhaps to get a bucket of ice or something and come back...and they have broken into their own language. They're talking Setswana, they're talking Zulu, whatever, and I am then a stranger in my own country and among my own people."