Nadine Gordimer, South African Author, Dies At 90

South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90.

Nadine Gordimer, one of the literary world’s most powerful voices against apartheid, died at her home after a short illness. Nadine wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son’s Story, Burger’s Daughter and July’s People. She jointly won 1974′s Booker Prize for The Conservationist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.

Her works comprised both novels and short stories where the consequences of apartheid, exile and alienation were the major themes.