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Section
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Poets in the News
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Poet Name
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Coetzee, John Maxwell ' -J. M. '
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Given Name
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John Maxwell
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Last Name
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Coetzee
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Date of Birth
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9 February 1940
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Biography
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John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. Though an opponent of apartheid, Coetzee returned to South Africa after receiving his PhD at the University of Texas in 1969. Coetzee wrote frequently on the effects of colonization; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
<https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-M-Coetzee>
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Close Relationships
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Smith, Wilbur Addison
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Hambidge, Joan 'Helene'
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Swift, Graham 'Graham Colin Swift'
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Collins, William Wilkie 'Wilkie Collins'
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Haight, G. S. 'Gordon Sherman Haight'
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Caine, Hall 'Thomas Henry Hall Caine'
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Naipaul, V. S.
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Mesthrie, Rajend
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MacBeth, George
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Ackroyd, Peter
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Matthiessen, Peter
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Stevenson, Anne
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Highsmith, Mary Patricia
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Hall, Megan
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Rosenthal, Andrew
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Kilmartin, Terence
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Partridge, Eric 'Eric Honeywood Partridge'
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Jardin, André
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Pawel, Ernst
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Thomas, Donald Michael 'D. M. Thomas'
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Gilot, Marie Françoise 'Françoise Gilot'
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Briggs, Asa
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Howard, Philip
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Garisch, Dawn
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Pieterse, Cosmo
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Taylor, David John 'D. J. Taylor'
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Shakespeare, William
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St Aubin de Terán, Lisa
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Baderoon, Gabeba
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Kok, Ingrid de
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Carter, Angela
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Jolley, Elizabeth 'Monica Elizabeth Jolley'
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Naipaul , Shivadhar Srinivasa 'Shiva Naipaul'
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Levin, Henry Bernard 'Bernard Levin'
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de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel 'Cervantes '
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Porter, Peter
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Ryle, John 'John Rowland Ryle'
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Mason, Anita 'Anita Frances Mason'
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Plimpton, George Ames
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Gifford, Don
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Parenzee, Donald
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Horwitz, Allan Kolski
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Russell , Henry Kenneth Alfred 'Ken Russell '
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Williams , Nigel ' Henry Nigel Williams'
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Purves, Libby
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van den Heever, C. M.
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Osman, Ladan
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Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary
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Kozain, Rustum
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Johnson, Sarah
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Mbeki , Thabo Mvuyelwa 'Thabo Mbeki '
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Redondi, Pietro
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Victoria Glendinning, Victoria Glendinning 'Victoria Seebohm'
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Sweetman, David
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French, Sean 'Nicci French'
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Fuller, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngugi 'James'
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Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
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Rubens, Bernice
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Kafka, Franz
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Weldon, Fay
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Clayton, Cherry
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Carpenter , Humphrey William Bouverie 'Humphrey Carpenter '
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Phillips, Mark Salber 'Mark Phillips'
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Carey, Peter Philip 'Peter Carey'
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Schreiner, Olive
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Burchfield, Robert 'Robert William Burchfield'
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Tennyson, Alfred Lloyd
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Malouf, David George Joseph 'David Malouf'
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Gray, Stephen
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Cronin, Jeremy
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Tomalin, Claire 'Claire Delavenay'
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Finney, Patricia 'P.F. Chisholm/Grace Cavendish'
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Harwood, Ronald
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Tutuola, Amos
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Shrimpton, Nicholas
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Byatt, A. S. 'Antonia Susan Duffy Drabble'
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Evans, Mary Ann 'George Eliot'
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Wiggins, Marianne
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Ritchie, Berry
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Watson, Stephen
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Mulgrew, Nick
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Gordimer, Nadine
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Gatenby, Greg
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Smith, Pauline Janet
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Dowling, Finuala
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Rushdie, Salman
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Baldwin, James
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Adams, Perseus 'Peter Robert Charles'
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Breytenbach, Breyten
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Small, Adam
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Haresnape, Geoffrey
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Anyidoho, Kofi 'born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams'
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Paton, Alan
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Driver, Charles Jonathan 'Jonty'
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Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'
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Fugard, Sheila Meiring
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Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus
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Clouts, Sydney
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Blum, Peter
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Okigbo, Christopher
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Rive, Richard
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Hamilton, William Robert 'W. R.'
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