1923 - 2014
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadine Gordimer has received more than 867,145 page views. Her biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Nadine Gordimer is the 359th most popular writer (down from 328th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 5th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Writer.
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer who is most famous for her novels and short stories about the effects of apartheid on individuals.
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Among writers, Nadine Gordimer ranks 359 out of 5,794. Before her are W. B. Yeats, Dan Brown, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Jean Genet, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Elfriede Jelinek. After her are Arthur de Gobineau, Einhard, Ammianus Marcellinus, Callimachus, Jacques Prévert, and Shams Tabrizi.
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 353
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 354
1876 - 1944
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 355
1910 - 1986
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 356
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 357
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 358
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 359
1816 - 1882
HPI: 76.18
Rank: 360
770 - 840
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 361
330 - 395
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 362
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 363
1900 - 1977
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 364
1185 - 1248
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 365
Among people born in 1923, Nadine Gordimer ranks 15. Before her are Rocky Marciano, Heydar Aliyev, Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, Roy Lichtenstein, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. After her are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Franco Zeffirelli, György Ligeti, Mas Oyama, Carroll Shelby, and Marcel Marceau. Among people deceased in 2014, Nadine Gordimer ranks 12. Before her are Eduard Shevardnadze, Claudio Abbado, Joe Cocker, Shirley Temple, Eli Wallach, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. After her are Luis Aragonés, Hiroo Onoda, Richard Kiel, Jacques Le Goff, Lauren Bacall, and Maximilian Schell.
1923 - 1969
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 9
1923 - 2003
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1923 - 1945
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 11
1923 - 1985
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 13
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 14
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 15
1923 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 16
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 17
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 18
1923 - 1994
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 19
1923 - 2012
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 20
1923 - 2007
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 21
1928 - 2014
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 6
1933 - 2014
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 7
1944 - 2014
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 8
1928 - 2014
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 9
1915 - 2014
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 11
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 12
1938 - 2014
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 13
1922 - 2014
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 14
1939 - 2014
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 15
1924 - 2014
HPI: 75.09
Rank: 16
1924 - 2014
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 17
1930 - 2014
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 18
Among people born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 6 out of 312. Before her are Nelson Mandela (1918), J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Sarah Baartman (1788), and Shaka (1787). After her are Behati Prinsloo (1988), Elon Musk (1971), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Desmond Tutu (1931), and Miriam Makeba (1932).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 4
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 6
1988 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 11
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
Among writers born in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer ranks 3. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and J. M. Coetzee (1940). After her are André Brink (1935), Peter Abrahams (1919), Elsa Joubert (1922), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Deon Meyer (1958).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 3
1935 - 2015
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 4
1919 - 2017
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 5
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 6
1934 - 2020
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 7
1906 - 1996
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 9
1903 - 1988
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 10
1933 - 1965
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 12