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Novelists fight AIDS

AFP, Johannesburg
Nobel prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer launchedTuesday a literary-style Live Aid, with a shortstory collection by some of world's most distinguished writers to benefit HIV/AIDS treatment
At a press conference, where she was introduced by Salman Rushdie as "the Bob Geldof of the literary world," Gordimersaidshehad taken her cue from musicians who had performed benefit concerts for causes like AIDS and famine relief.
'T asked myself, what had we writers done?" the South African novelist said. "The answer was nothing. No group effort."
Geldof organized musicians behind (fie 1985 Live Aid concerts, which raised funds for Ethiopian famine victims.
Gordimer wrote to 20 novelists, including four fellow Nobel prize winners - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass. Jose Saramago and KcnzaburQ Ge -- asking each to contribute* one shon story and to waive all royalties.
"And I got wonderful responses from every one of them," she said.
The result was a 21-story collection, 'Telling Tales," which has so far found 13 publishers around the world - all of whom agreed to distribute the
book without takingany profit
"It’s a great book. Some of the stories are real classics," said Rushdie, who was also among the invited contributors, along with the likes of John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Woody Allen, Michel Tournier and Arthur Miller.
Specifically, the money generated from the worldwide sales' of "Telling Thies" will finance the work of the Treatment Action Campaign, a South African HIV/AIDS treatment non-governmental organisation.
"Musicians have contributed their talents to jazz, pop and classical concerts for the benefit of the 40 million men, women and children worldwide infected with HIV/AIDS, two-thirds of whom are in Africa," Gordimer, who edited the collection, said in the introduction to the book.
"We decided that we too should ... give something of our ability, as imaginative writers, to contribute in our way to the fight against this disease from which no country and no individual is safely Isolated." she said.
None of the stories take 11IV/Al DS as their direct subject, but many deal with themes of dead), illness and isolation.
Updike, who attended Tuesday’s launch, said he had jumped at the chance to join the project.