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Radio 3,2 mins

“I educated myself through books” - Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer

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Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Nadine Gordimer talking to Anne McElvoy about her first publication and her upbringing in South Africa. From an interview first broadcast on Night Waves, Tuesday 20 March 2012 on BBC Radio 3. Image: Nadine Gordimer in a village in West Rand, near Johannesburg in 1981. © BBC

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