Congrats to Capetonian author J.M. Coetzee for winning the 2003 Nobel Literature Prize worth $1.3M!!

The Jury said, his novels, which include ‘Disgrace‘, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians‘ and ‘In the Heart of the Country‘, are characterised by well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical brilliance. But it also called Coetzee “ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilisation.”