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Nobel prize for literature 2003

August 2007

  • Even Nobel winners can make mistakes

    JM Coetzee's modest confessional Diary of a Bad Year does him very few favours, says Adam Mars-Jones.

December 2003

  • The castaway

    DJ Taylor on JM Coetzee's intriguing Nobel acceptance speech

  • Coetzee takes on Crusoe for Nobel

    The notoriously media-shy novelist JM Coetzee, winner of this year's Nobel prize for literature, used the literary persona of Robinson Crusoe to deliver his Nobel lecture in Stockholm on Sunday.

  • JM Coetzee's Nobel lecture

    He and his man

November 2003

  • Coetzee steps out

    Five years ago, when Toni Morrison invited the novelist JM Coetzee to give a lecture on censorship at Princeton University, the reclusive South African showed up and read a story about a fictional Australian novelist named Elizabeth Costello. Last Thursday, the recently crowned Nobel laureate pulled this bait-and-switch again on an audience during a rare public appearance in New York at the city's grand public library.

October 2003

  • Lost in London

    Last week the reclusive novelist JM Coetzee won the Nobel prize for literature. He never gives interviews - but this extract from his revealing memoir published last year offers a tantalising glimpse into the inner world of a young poet who left South Africa to seek his literary fortune in Britain

  • Nobel prize for JM Coetzee - secretive author who made the outsider his art form

    World acclaim for exiled South African novelist unread at home.

  • JM Coetzee is 'easy' Nobel winner

    South African writer JM Coetzee has won the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature.

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