South African anti-apartheid author Nadine Gordimer dies, aged 90

Nobel Prize for literature laureate Nadine Gordimer attends a memorial for [Nelson Mandela's biographer and former Drum editor late Anthony Sampson] in Johannesburg February 8, 2005.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, one of the literary world's most powerful voices against apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on Monday. Gordimer died peacefully at her Johannesburg home on Sunday evening in the presence of her children, Hugo and Oriane, a statement from the family said.