著名南非女作家纳丁.戈迪默在多年的写作生涯中,始终坚持把把公共关怀与文学创作结合起来,从未放弃对南非社会和南非人的深切关注。无论是在种族隔离时期的南非,新旧政权交替时期的南非,还是在种族隔离结束后的新南非,她从未停止创作以南非为背景,以南非人为主人公的小说。她用自己的实际行动向世人证明———知识分子从来就不是躲在象牙塔里的空谈者。 In her many years of writing career, renowned female writer Nadine Gordimer has always insisted on combining public concern with literary creation and has never given up her deep concern about South African society and South Africans. Whether in South Africa in apartheid, South Africa in the transition between the old and the new regimes or in the new South Africa after apartheid, she never stopped creating novels based in South Africa on the basis of South Africans. She used her own deeds to prove to the world that intellectuals had never been empty talkers hiding in the ivory tower.