Coetzee

/ ˈkɜːtzɪ /

noun

CoetzeeJ(ohn) M(ichael)1940MSouth AfricanWRITING: novelist J ( ohn ) M ( ichael ). born 1940, South African novelist: his works include Life and Times of Michael K (1983), Age of Iron (1990), Disgrace (1999), and Elizabeth Costello (2003); Nobel prize for literature (2003)

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When J.M. Coetzee included A Mountain of Crumbs in his top reads of 2011.

Waiting for the Barbarians By J.M. Coetzee First of all, it opens with sunglasses and squinting.

Our stars range from Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee to the writer of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell.

All but one of the shortlisted six (Coetzee being the exception) hailed from the mother country.

Then I knew what old Coetzee's devil was that howled in the Rooirand.

Old Coetzee saved me the trouble of answering, for he broke in with Skellum!

"You have turned wonderfully patriotic all of a sudden, Oom Coetzee," said Jess tartly.

Next appeared Hans Coetzee, his head bound up in a bloody handkerchief.

As soon as they had gone I had out my map and searched it for the name old Coetzee had mentioned.

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