Nadine is the French elaboration of the Russian Nadya / Nadezhda — meaning "hope." Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) — South African novelist and anti-apartheid activist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature "who through her magnificent epic writing has been of very great benefit to humanity". *Two of her novels — Burger's Daughter (1979) and July's People (1981) — were banned by the apartheid regime; she joined the African National Congress when it was still illegal. Lifelong friend of Nelson Mandela; smuggled his manuscripts and edited his Rivonia Trial speech. First South African woman to win the Booker Prize (The Conservationist, 1974). Nadine Strossen (born 1950) — first woman president of the ACLU (1991-2008). Nadine Heredia* — first First Lady of Peru.
Subject of Stephen Clingman's The Novels of Nadine Gordimer (1986).
Nadine reduces to six — the number of Nobel apartheid voice.