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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) 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. source

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South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

Born 9 Feb 1940

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South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

Born 9 Feb 1940

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Fiction, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Authors, fiction, South africa, fiction, History and criticism, English literature, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, psychological, South African Authors, Authors, Biography, Large type books, Literature, Fathers and daughters, Roman, Romans, nouvelles, Short stories, South African (English), South Africans, Australia, fiction, Authorship, Chang pian xiao shuo, Coetzee, j. m., 1940-, Families

Places

South Africa, England, Africa, Australia, London (England), nan fei, Cape Town, London, Angleterre, Eastern Cape, Foreign countries, Nan fei, Russia, Saint Petersburg (Russia), Vietnam, Zuid-Afrika, the United States, África

People

J. M. Coetzee (1940-), André Philippus Brink (1935-), Bev Shaw, Breyten Breytenbach, Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731), David Lurie, Department of Defense, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Hendrik Hop, J. M. Coetzee, Jacobus Coetzee, Jesus Christ, Lucy Lurie, Magda, Melanie Isaacs, Petrus, Pollux

Time

20th century, xian dai, 1760s, 1970s, 1994-, 21st century, Alexander II, 1855-1881, Siglo XX

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  • John Maxwell Coetzee
  • J.M. Coetzee
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  • J.m. Coetzee
  • J.M. COETZEE
  • J.m.coetzee
  • CoetzeeJ.M.
  • J. M (John) Coetzee
  • J M COETZEE
  • J. M. COETZEE
  • COETZEE,J.M.

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