1. Nadine Gordimer

2. Nadine Gordimer
“given imaginative and moral shape to the recent history of South Africa.”
“changing patterns of response and resistance to apartheid by exploring the place of the European in Africa.”
1991 Nobel Prize for literature

3. Derek Walcott 1930 – March 17, 2017

4. Derek Walcott born in Saint Lucia
“cross-cultural” literary “inheritance” is sometimes “a source of pain” and other times a source of “celebration”
asks how a postcolonial poet can “both grieve the agonizing harm of the British colonialism and appreciate the empire’s literary gift.”
1992 Nobel Prize for Literature