Gordimer, Nadine: - Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's best-known authors. In her fiction, Gordimer consistently attacks the system of apartheid from the standpoint of the white middle class. Her stories show how some whites slowly awaken to the injustice and moral corruption of the system while others fail to see how the racial policy eats away at the moral basis of society. Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa.