PBS NewsHour

Remembering writer and activist Nadine Gordimer

Clip: 07/14/2014 | 3m 13s

Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90 at her home in Johannesburg. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist used her pen to write damning indictments of South Africa's racial segregation. We look back at Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s 1987 interview with Gordimer about the prospect of having another book banned by the government.

Aired: 07/14/14

Rating: NR

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