瑞典文学院10月3日宣布,将今年诺贝尔文学奖授予敢于揭露和公开反对南非种族隔离制度的南非白人女作家内丁·戈迪默。这是25年以来第一位,也是1901年设立这项奖以来第七位获奖的女作家。戈迪默,这位身材纤细、头发灰白的女作家1923年11月20日出生于南非约翰内斯堡附近盛产矿石的斯普林斯镇。她是犹太移民的后裔,父亲是来自波罗的海沿岸的立陶宛的一名珠宝商,母亲是一名贤惠的英国妇女。 The Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 3 that it will award this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature to Nadine Gordimer, a South African white woman who dared to expose and openly oppose apartheid in South Africa. This is the number one award winner in 25 years and the seventh prize winning woman since the establishment of the prize in 1901. Gordimer, the slender, gray-haired woman, was born on November 20, 1923 in the town of Springs, rich in ore near Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a descendant of Jewish immigrants, a father from Lithuania on the Baltic coast, a jeweler, her mother is a virtuous British woman.