Kenneth Bonert
By Kenneth Bonert
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Culture The Gift Nadine Gordimer Gave to Me
Editor’s Note: On this date in 1991, the author Nadine Gordimer received the Nobel Prize for Literature. To commemorate that anniversary, we return to this essay by National Jewish Book Award-winning author Kenneth Bonert, written on the occasion of Gordimer’s passing in 2014. There is one quality that is perhaps more important to a writer…
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Culture The Gift Nadine Gordimer Gave to Me
There is one quality that is perhaps more important to a writer than any other. Nadine Gordimer, who died this week in South Africa at the age of ninety, not only possessed it in abundance but was able to grant a measure of it to others, as she did to me when I was struggling…
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