"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
Please add in your news items...and have a good day! Thanks!! "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor. Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend at the Pretoria home of Denis Pietton, the French ambassador in South Africa. Pietton said France wanted to pay homage to a "great writer" whose "work shines throughout the world." "By making you an Officer of the Legion of Honor, we also wish to pay tribute to a symbolic figure of the fight against apartheid, that absurd and terrible system that sought, unrealistically to separate races," he said. Gordimer, 83, who is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991. Several of her novels were once banned in her own country.
Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend at the Pretoria home of Denis Pietton, the French ambassador in South Africa.
Pietton said France wanted to pay homage to a "great writer" whose "work shines throughout the world."
"By making you an Officer of the Legion of Honor, we also wish to pay tribute to a symbolic figure of the fight against apartheid, that absurd and terrible system that sought, unrealistically to separate races," he said.
Gordimer, 83, who is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991. Several of her novels were once banned in her own country.
Really, who need the article. The headline says it all. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
