John Maxwell Coetzee
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John Maxwell Coetzee ( or Afrikaans ) (born 9 February, 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australia citizen living in South Australia). A novel and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa. His father, a lawyer, and his mother, a schoolteacher, were descended from early Dutch settlers dating to the 17th century. Coetzee also has Polish roots, as his great-grandfather Baltazar (or...
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