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J. M. Coetzee

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John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. Coetzee moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. M. Coetzee is the 311th most popular writer (up from 324th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 6th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Writer.

J. M. Coetzee is most famous for his novel Disgrace, which was the 1999 winner of the Booker Prize.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, J. M. Coetzee ranks 311 out of 7,302. Before him are Alberto Moravia, Chrétien de Troyes, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, and J. M. G. Le Clézio. After him are Ismail Kadare, Herman Melville, Max Brod, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Ernst Jünger, and Antonin Artaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, J. M. Coetzee ranks 24. Before him are Ringo Starr, Stuart Sutcliffe, Gao Xingjian, Raul Julia, Michael Gambon, and J. M. G. Le Clézio. After him are Burhanuddin Rabbani, Joachim Gauck, Muhammad Yunus, Martin Sheen, Frank Zappa, and Carlos Slim.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, J. M. Coetzee ranks 5 out of 454. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Nelson Mandela (1918), Elon Musk (1971), and Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924). After him are Nadine Gordimer (1923), Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, J. M. Coetzee ranks 2. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892). After him are Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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