NSRI Hout Bay's 10m rescue craft 'Nadine Gordimer' Pic: Rob FineWe have a rescue boat operating out of Hout Bay harbour which the sponsor named 'Nadine Gordimer'. Today we wish her namesake a very happy 90th birthday.According to Wikipedia, Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman 'who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity'.
Picture: Sasa Kralj/AP/Trace Images Source: http://www.citypress.co.za/news/100-world-class-south-africans-nadine-gordimer-jm-coetzee/
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