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Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor. Gordimer, photographed with her dog at her home in Johannesburg on March 19, 2007, was awarded the decorative medal at a ceremony over the weekend at the Pretoria home of Denis Pietton, the French ambassador in South Africa.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)