Nadine Gordimer advocates book over screen for the imagination - and Africa
Nobel laureate defends printed word and calls for libraries in shanty towns in Hamlin lecture at Guardian Hay festival
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 May 2010 23.13 BST
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer speaking at the Hay festival. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, one of South Africa's most distinguished literary figures and a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, has mounted a passionate defence of the printed book against the onslaught of technology.
In the week that the iPad was launched in the UK, Gordimer said: "There is no substitute for the book, and it would be a great deprivation and danger if the book should disappear and be replaced by something with a battery."
She said of mobile phone and computer technology: "I am not talking in a fuddy-duddy way about this. These things are wonderful for disseminating information.
"But for poetry, for novels, stories – those things that have the imagination at their heart – there is no substitute for the book."
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