Anti-Israel activists have appealed
to Nobel Prize winner Nadine
Gordimer not to attend Jerusalem's
International Writers Festival.
The 84-year-old South African writer,
who is scheduled to make three
appearances at the festival and
share the stage with Israeli writer Amos Oz, has received appeals
to join the cultural boycott of Israel.
This is while in 2001 the Jewish writer, who is known for her left-wing
activities, advised her American friend Susan Sontag against traveling
to Israel to receive the Jerusalem Prize from the city's biennial
international book fair.
Gordimer, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, has so far
declined to comment on the issue announcing that she would
soon make a public statement about her decision.
The director of the festival, Yael Nahari says she is trying
to arrange meetings between the writer and Palestinian
students and is hopeful that Gordimer will attend the event
scheduled for May 11 to 15.
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