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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Nadine Gordimer was born in South Africa on 20 November 1923 and spent six decades turning the country's racial fractures into literature that refused easy answers. Her novels — The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People — won the Booker Prize and repeated Central News Agency Literary Awards, but the apartheid government banned some of them for the questions they raised. She joined the African National Congress when membership itself was illegal and helped Nelson Mandela draft the 1964 defence speech that preceded his life sentence. In 1991 the Nobel Prize in Literature arrived, recognising the epic scope of her witness. She turned to HIV/AIDS activism in her later years and died on 13 July 2014, one of the most honoured writers of her generation.