HAVANA, Feb 14 - Nobel Laureate in Literature 1991, struggling against apartheid in South Africa and all forms of racial discrimination, Nadine Gordimer is one of the personalities that exalts the 19th International Fair Cuba 2010, where he presented his book A quirk of nature, edited by Art and Literature seal.

Before a crowded audience she condemned the imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorists in U.S. prisons for over 10 years.

It is very difficult to understand the manipulations of the U.S. government to detain the Five, as well as the whole show staged to bring to court, in contradiction with international norms and standards of justice,she added

I speak from a country that has long suffered in the flesh of apartheid and the lack of justice, she said. For me it is very difficult to understand how a nation that prides itself on democracy is able to ignore that way of democracy.

In 2007, Nadine Gordimer wrote to the New York Times: "I feel compelled by human concern and values, and by my awareness of how justice was travestied in my own country, South Africa, in like ways during the apartheid era, to raise my voice in protest at the persecution of these five Cuban men."

South African writer Nadine Gordine has described also as unacceptable the continued existence of the US prison in Guantanamo Naval Base, much less the existence of this facility in a serving U.S. east of the island.

I do not understand, she said, how a country can have a piece of land in another, over which the latter is unable to exercise its own sovereignty. Frankly, it’s unacceptable,she said, after asserting that his support for the island dated back a long time and gained further strength from the prison at Guantanamo established by Washington.

She said at first she was delighted that for the first time in the history US has an African American, Barack Obama, in power.

She had hoped that Obama would head toward a policy of exchanges with Cuba and lift the embargo and sanctions against Cuba.

Give him another chance,she added, “for the heritage that drew him, but if this year can not lift the blockade against the island, I feel very disappointed.