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The first South African nominee for the Nobel Prize was a certain P. B. de Ville who was unsuccessfully recommended twice (in 1930 and 1932) by South African Minister of Health and Social Welfare Karl Bremer (1885–1953). [18] Since then, other South African influential figures and organizations started receiving nominations as well.
First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature [4] 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa: First White African woman to win a Nobel Prize 1993 Nelson Mandela: Peace: 1993 F. W. de Klerk: 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France (born in ...
The 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African activist and writer Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity." [1] She is the 7th female and first South African recipient of the prize followed by J. M. Coetzee in ...
The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African [1] [2] novelist John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), better known simply as J. M. Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider." [3] He is the fourth African writer to be so honoured [4] and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer ...
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". [1] Gordimer was one of the most honored female writers of her generation.
On accepting the Jerusalem Prize in 1987, Coetzee spoke of the limitations of art in South African society, whose structures had resulted in "deformed and stunted relations between human beings" and "a deformed and stunted inner life". He added, "South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less than fully human literature.
Pages in category "South African Nobel laureates" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
South African English writing has produced two Nobel Prize winners: ... A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature 17th - 19th Centuries, ...