...So that someone might want to put you in a book...So tha… - J. M. Coetzee

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...So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?

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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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Native Name: John Maxwell Coetzee

Alternative Names: John Coetzee • J.M. Coetzee

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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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Margaret Atwood William Faulkner Ursula K. Le Guin E. M. Forster John Steinbeck

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