CRI听力:South African Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Dies at 90

South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died.

Her family says she died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Johannesburg.

She was 90.

Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 for her novels exploring the cost of the racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.

She talked about her work during an interview last year.

"I am a born writer, but a writer who lives in the actuality of a certain place and a certain time. And if one doesn't respond to that and that of course implies politically, the political side comes from being a human being."

Gordimer was an anti-apartheid crusader who fought for the release of Nelson Mandela as a leading member of the African National Congress.

The author wrote 15 novels and a large amount of other works, which have been published in 40 different languages around the world.