THE 2003 RECIPIENT of the Nobel Prize in Literature is not a surprise choice. J.M. Coetzee appeared on many lists of likely candidates, since his nine books of fiction, as well as his critical essays, ...
J.M. Coetzee, a South African writer whose fiction deals with the cruelty and foibles of humankind, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. Rather than expressing the customary ...