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Nadine Gordimer on her post-political Heroine

Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa

"I like to begin my novels with something happening and invent from there what could come from that particular event" – South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, about a rebel idealist in post-Apartheid South Africa. Plus: The Zimbabwe Book Fair took place, despite the country's economic downturn and political unrest; and how a list of Africa's 100 Best Books is being compiled.
Presenter Harriett Gilbert.

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