South Africa's J.M. Coetzee wins Nobel Literature Prize

Any recommendations??? I've only read excerpts of his work.

 

Oh, well there's always next year for Hugo Claus (yeah right...)

 

I read Foe a few years back and thought it was brilliant. There are full pages where the writting has the dripping, condensed feel of epic free verse poetry, rather than novelistic prose (that you sometimes get in Morrison or Marquez or Woolf).

 

http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003100209n.htm

Decent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

Can I ask a dumbass question? I have never been able to pronounce his last name. How do you say it?

And, by the way, the picture of him in the Washington Post today was kind of creepy. I'm sure he's a lovely man, though.

 

Thanks!

Well, I'm glad my critique won't be keeping him up nights.

His girlfriend can take care of that.

 

I have read both.

Good stuff.

He may be the first Nobel prize winning writer that I read before he won the prize.

ps-Does anyone have a list (or link) they can post of all Nobel prize winners.

 

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates

Some famous names, some answers to damn hard trivia questions.

 

Coetzee makes it 75 Nobel laureates affiliated with my school.

 

In addition to the foregoing, I'd also recommend The Lives of Animals.