Have John Dufresne and Nadine Gordimer both won awards for their work?
John Dufresne:   In 2012, he won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work. Nadine Gordimer: Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
yes