English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1708 short lesson, about 20 seconds
J. M. Coetzee
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The idea
J. M. Coetzee, born in South Africa in nineteen forty and now also Australian, won the Booker Prize twice and the Nobel Prize in two thousand three. His Disgrace, of nineteen ninety-nine, a Booker winner, follows a white professor in post-apartheid South Africa who loses everything.
In practice
Two Bookers, a Nobel.
Where people slip
Facts only for living authors.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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