The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
Awarded on: 2003-10-02
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
John M. Coetzee
Born: 1940-02-09 in Cape Town, South Africa
Gender: male
Field: South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
Biography
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.