J. M. Coetzee
b. 1940 · South Africa · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
Austere novelist of power and complicity; Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians.
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- Nadine Gordimer
1923 – 2014 · Literature
The South African novel of complicity is the tradition Coetzee sharpens.
- Patrick White
1912 – 1990 · Literature
White's austere settler-colonial moral novel precedes Coetzee's.
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