| NADINEGORDIMER | South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African writer and political activist, d. 2014 (6) |
| GORDIMER | South African winner of the 1991 Nobel prize in literature |
| SHIRINEBADI | Iranian lawyer and activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially rights for women and children (6,5) |
| SOLPLAATJE | South African writer and politician; a founder member and first General Secretary of the SANNC (3,7) |
| ALANPATON | South African author and anti-apartheid activist best known for Cry, The Beloved Country |
| TUTU | South African cleric and activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Desmond ... |
| LAURENS | ___ van der Post, South African writer and conservationist born in 1906 (7) |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African author awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise (5,6) |
| AUNGSAN | Burmese pro-democracy activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, ... Suu Kyi (4,3) |
| SONTAG | Susan _, US writer and political activist whose essay collections include 1977's On Photography (6) |
| NOTIME | ___ Like The Present, final novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer (2,4) |
| ATHOLFUGARD | South African author of the play The Blood Knot (5,6) |
| COETZEE | J.M., South African author of 1983's The Life and Times of Michael K (7) |
| ROYWILKINS | American civil rights activist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B Johnson in 1967 |
| VANDERPOST | South African writer of travel memoirs and novels |
| HELEN | ___ Keller, US author and political activist (5) |
| PATON | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country (4,5) |
| ALAN | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country (4,5) |
| ANNIEBESANT | British-born theosophist, writer and political reformer who was the first female president of the Indian National Congress (5,6) |
