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Article: COETZEE WINS NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2003
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Byline: DAVID SEXTON
THE 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature has been won by the South African novelist J M Coetzee, the Swedish Academy announced today.
This is wonderful news. Coetzee, 63, unquestionably among the greatest living writers in English.
The Nobel has often been misapplied.
evaded Tolstoy, Chekhov, Conrad, Proust, Hardy, Joyce, Kafka and Nabokov.
It was won, on the other hand, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Jose Echegaray y Eisaguirre,
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Giosue Carducci, Paul von Heyse, Verner von Heidenstam, Rudolf Eucken and others now wholly forgotten. In many cases, the judges seem to have been influenced ...