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Nadine Gordimer Wins the Nobel Prize.

South African Novelist Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature today. We'll have an excerpt from Terry's interview with her in May 24, 1989.

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Other segments from the episode on October 3, 1991

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 3, 1991: Interview with Molly Ivins; Interview with Walter Dellinger; Interview with Nadine Gordimer.
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Journalist Molly Ivins.

Journalist Molly Ivins from Austin, Texas. She calls herself a "dripping fangs liberal," and believes that by being objective journalists take all the color out of human affairs. She says, "politics ought to be covered the way sports is, as a celebration of heroes and villians." She's taken on Ron and Nancy Reagan, George Bush, and the "bubbas" in the Texas Legislature.

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