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Award
2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
John Maxwell Coetzee
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
Date
  • 2 October 2003 (2003-10-02) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2003
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African novelist John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), better known simply as J. M. Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider." He is the fourth African writer to be so honoured and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer in 1991.

Laureate

Main article: J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee's prose is rigorous and analytical, spanning through different genres from autobiographical novels to short fiction, essays to translations. He made his debut in 1974 with the novel Dusklands, but his international breakthrough came a few years later with Waiting for the Barbarians in 1980. A recurring theme in his novels is a crucial situation, where right and wrong are put to the test and where people's weaknesses and defeat become fundamental to the story's development. His other novels include Life & Times of Michael K (1983), Disgrace (1999), and his "Jesus" Trilogy: The Childhood of Jesus (2013), The Schooldays of Jesus, and The Death of Jesus (2019).

Nobel lecture

J. M. Coetzee delivered his Nobel Lecture entitled He and His Man at the Swedish Academy on December 7, 2003. His lecture features the characters of Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe that borrows extensively from Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) where he whimsically explores several concerns of central importance for the activities of reading and writing, most notably the seemingly unavoidable phenomenon of displacement or substitution that is best characterized as catachresis.

References

  1. On 2002, Coetzee moved to Australia but he was still awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as a South African citizen. Then, on 6 March 2006, he became a full Australian citizen.
  2. "JM Coetzee Became an Australian Citizen". Mail & Guardian. 6 March 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  3. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 nobelprize.org
  4. "Coetzee wins Nobel literature prize". BBC News. 2 October 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Coetzee receives Nobel honour". BBC News. 10 December 2003. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  6. J. M. Coetzee nobelprize.org
  7. J. M. Coetzee britannica.com
  8. ^ 2003 Nobel Lecture nobelprize.org

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