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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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, PolluxID Numbers
- OLID: OL33242A
- ISNI: 0000000121034865
- VIAF: 101839018
- Wikidata: Q43293
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q43293
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- John Maxwell Coetzee
- J.M. Coetzee
- J M Coetzee
- J.m. Coetzee
- J.M. COETZEE
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- CoetzeeJ.M.
- J. M (John) Coetzee
- J M COETZEE
- J. M. COETZEE
- COETZEE,J.M.
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