The company of women made of him a lover of women and, to a… - J. M. Coetzee

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The company of women made of him a lover of women and, to a certain extent, a womanizer."

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John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940), often called J. M. Coetzee, is a South African-born writer and academic. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He now lives in Australia.

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