The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 was awarded
to John M. Coetzee "who in innumerable guises
portrays the surprising involvement of the
outsider."
The South African writer JM Coetzee won the Nobel prize for literature
for dark meditations on post-apartheid South Africa that have been
acclaimed for reflecting the human condition.
The Swedish Academy hailed the author of such novels as Disgrace
and Waiting For The Barbarians as a "scrupulous doubter, ruthless in