Nobelist assaulted and robbed
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Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, 83, was assaulted in her Johannesburg home by three men who forced her to open a safe and robbed her of cash and jewelry, police said.
She did not sustain serious injuries in the Thursday attack, police said, and no arrests have been made.
Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991, and is noted for novels and short stories about the inhumanity of apartheid. Several were once banned in her country.
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