2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
John Maxwell Coetzee
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
Date
  • 2 October 2003 (2003-10-02) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2003
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South African novelist John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), better known simply as J. M. Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider." He is the fourth African writer to be so honoured and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer in 1991.

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