Nadine Gordimer born (20/11/1923)

South African writer and political activist.
Booker Prize 1974 for _The Conservationist_.
Nobel Prize for Literature 1991.
"The only thing I really regret...[is] just to have studied foreign languages and not learnt an African language. So like most other South Africans , there I am sitting with my black friends and we're all talking in English, and then I may go out of the room perhaps to get a bucket of ice or something and come back...and they have broken into their own language. They're talking Setswana, they're talking Zulu, whatever, and I am then a stranger in my own country and among my own people."