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- Former South African heavyweight boxer Gerrie Coetzee died on Thursday at the age of 67. His cause of death has been confirmed.
www.thesouthafrican.com/sport/boxing/gerrie-coetzee-cause-of-death-confirmed-rip-breaking-13-january-2023/Gerrie Coetzee: Cause of death confirmed - The South African
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John Maxwell Coetzee [a] 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.
Coetzee began writing fiction in 1969. His first book, Dusklands, was published in South Africa in 1974. In the Heart of the Country (1977) won South Africa’s then principal literary award, the CNA Prize, and was published in Britain and the USA.
J.M. Coetzee is a South African novelist, critic, and translator noted for his novels about the effects of colonization. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Coetzee’s notable books included Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace, both of which won the Booker Prize.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 25, 2024 · J.M. Coetzee, one of the leading novelists of our age, turns 84 this year. Last year, he published The Pole and Other Stories, his 18th book (excluding volumes of criticism, commentary, letters...
- Andrew Van Der Vlies
Sep 13, 2022 · He has lived in the United Kingdom, the United States and, currently, he resides in Australia. His work has travelled even farther, from those early novels depicting the narrow-mindedness and...
- Berna González Harbour
Oct 5, 2023 · The South African-born Nobel laureate, who has lived in Australia for two decades, is himself now 83 years old, and has for some time displayed self-consciousness about his age, even titling...
J.M. Coetzee is a South African author and literary critic who now resides in Australia. During the 1960s he worked as a programmer for IBM in London, which he describes in the semi-autobiographical novel The Young Years.
