2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African[1][2] novelist John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), better known simply as J. M. Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."[3] He is the fourth African writer to be so honoured[4] and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer in 1991.[5]
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John Maxwell Coetzee | ||||
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden | |||
Presented by | Swedish Academy | |||
First awarded | 1901 | |||
Website | Official website | |||
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