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Disgrace is a 1999 novel by J. M. Coetzee.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">J. M. Coetzee</span> South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2003 Nobel Prize in Literature</span> Award

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