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“john maxwell coetzee”
*white south african*
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“caut SEE”
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*as of ‘1 OCTOBER 2019’*
‘as for as we know…’
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*born ‘9 february 1940’*
*in ‘cape town’ (/ ‘south africa’)*
(one of the most ‘racist states’ on earth!)
*at least in its ‘pre-WW2 incarnation*
(to ‘afrikaner’ parents)
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*younger brother was the journalist ‘ david coetzee’*
(he died in 2010)
*coetzee married ‘philippa jubber’ in 1963*
(@ ‘age 23’)
(son ‘nicholas’ is born in ‘1966’)
(@ ‘age 26’)
(‘nicholas’ died in an ‘accident’ in ‘1989’)
(‘age 23’)
(???)
(falling 14 stories from a balcony in what appeared to be a ‘homicide’)
*’daddy issues’?*
(i always assume some form of father/son estrangement)
(perhaps an evolutionary process to make ‘men’ of ‘boys’)
(the greeks called it ‘pederasty’)
(daughter ‘gisela’ is born in ‘1968’)
(@ ‘age 28’)
*divorced ‘philippa jubber’ in 1980*
(@ ‘age 40’)
“for he never thought much of ‘jubber'”
(just a ‘blob’ of ‘blubber’)
(a ‘stick’ of ‘butter’)
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*became an ‘australian citizen’ on ‘6 march 2006’*
“current squeeze” –>
(whom he refers to as his ‘partner’)
‘dorothy driver’
(academic @ ‘university of adelaide’)
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‘single’ / ‘married’ / ‘divorced’
(children?)
(‘biological’ or ‘adopted’?)
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“DISGRACE”
(1999)
(required reading for my ‘legalism’ core course @ ‘harvard’)
(‘spring 2003’)
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*’novelist’ / ‘essayist’ / ‘linguist’ / ‘translator’*
(recipient of the “2003 nobel prize’ (in ‘literature’))
(he relocated to ‘australia’ in ‘2002’)
(he lives in ‘adelaide’)
(he became an ‘australian citizen’ in ‘2006’)
(in ‘2013’, ‘richard poplak’ (of the daily maverick) described ‘coetzee’ as “inarguably the most ‘celebrated’ + ‘decorated’ living english-language author”)
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(before receiving the ‘2003 nobel prize’ in ‘literature’, ‘coetzee’ was awarded the…)
*the ‘jerusalem prize’*
*the ‘CNA prize’*
(x3 !!!)
*the ‘prix femina étranger*
The Irish Times International Fiction Prize
and the Booker Prize (twice),
*among other ‘accolades’*
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👈👈👈☜*“LIVING MALE WRITERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥