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- NAME: J.M. Coetzee
- OCCUPATION: Author
- BIRTH DATE: February 09, 1940 (Age: 73)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Cape Town, South Africa
- AKA: J.M. Coetzee
- ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius
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J.M. Coetzee is an author concerned with the conflicts and experiences of apartheid South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
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Author and literary critic John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. He is famous for his novels about the effects of colonization, his 1997 fictionalized memoir, Boyhood, being a perfect example. In 2003, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice. He is now an Australia citizen due to the effects of his writings.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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