Nadine Gordimer, novelist and anti-apartheid campaigner - a life in pictures
Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel prize-winning South African novelist and international figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, has died aged 90. Here is a selection of images from a life of both literary and political importance
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Nadine Gordimer in October 1961. Photograph: Gallo Images/Alamy
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Nadine Gordimer at a Savoy literary luncheon, holding the £1,000 cheque for winning the WH Smith Commonwealth literary award for Friday's Footprint. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
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Nadine Gordimer in 1961. Photograph: Alamy
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Nadine Gordimer in 1974. Gordimer won the 1974 Booker prize for The Conservationist. Photograph: Gallo Images
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Nadine Gordimer in 1980, when she had become one of the most prominent white South African opponents of apartheid. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty
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Nadine Gordimer was among about 300 white liberals who visited Alexandra, the black township near Johannesburg on May 18, 1986 to lay wreaths at the grave of 40 protesters killed by security forces. Photograph: Reuters
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16 October 1991: Archbishop Desmond Tutu welcomes Nadine Gordimer back to South Africa after she received the Nobel prize in literature. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty
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Nadine Gordimer pictured in 1993 while in Paris to promote My Son's Story. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
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29 May 1993, Johannesburg: Nelson Mandela and author Nadine Gordimer sing the National Liberation Anthem at the Gandhi Memorial. Photograph: Louise Gubb/Corbis
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Günter Grass (right), Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie meet in Hamburg, Germany in 1997 at a birthday party for 70-year-old Grass. Photograph: Christof Stache/AP
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Nelson Mandela receives the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award from Nadine Gordimer in 2006. Photograph: Jon Hrusa/Epa
