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South Africa’s J M Coetzee Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
South Africa’s J M Coetzee, known for Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy praised his precise, dialogic novels and moral inquiry, saying the award comes amid his professorship at the University of Chicago.
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