J. M. Coetzee, South African Novelist and Essayist(1940 - )

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Just the Facts:

• Name: John Maxwell Coetzee
• Known as: J. M. Coetzee
• Birth: February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa
• Languages: Afrikaans; English
• Who he is: South African novelist and essayist; Waiting for the Barbarians; Life and Times of Michael K; Foe; Age of Iron; The Master of Petersburg; Disgrace; The Childhood of Jesus; Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)
• Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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