Checking In
January, 1992
Last October, Nadine Gordimer, 68, South Africa's premiere novelist and passionate foe of apartheid, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is the first woman in a quarter century to have received the honor in that category. Playboy has been honored to publish Gordimer's work on several occasions during the past few decades. Her first words to appear in the magazine, in our May 1972 issue, introduced the work of street poets from Soweto. Her most recent contribution to these pages was t...
