In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
-- J. M. Coetzee
   
J. M. Coetzee   Name:
J. M. Coetzee
Type:
Author
Nationality:
South African
Birth:
February 9, 1940
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