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Nadine Gordimer at the Southbank Centre

In the first of a series of events between Index on Censorship and the Southbank Centre, South African novelist Nadine Gordimer will be speaking at the centre’s Literature and Spoken Word Festival on 14 March.

Published: January 4, 2012

When: Wednesday, 14. March 2012 19:30
Where: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
Host: Index on Censorship and the Southbank Centre
Contact: (customer@southbankcentre.co.uk / +44 (0)20 7960 4200)
More info: ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/nadine-gordimer-62299

The 88-year-old writer, renowned for her activism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She published her first novel in 1953, and has since gone on to publish short stories, plays and criticism in over 40 books, including The Conservationist, which won the Booker Prize in 1974. Gordimer’s latest novel, published to coincide with the event, is No Time Like the Present.

The festival will run from January to March. Tickets can be booked online here.

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