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Trying to unwrap the great Coetzee enigma

The determinedly private JM Coetzee is one of the world’s great writers. Billy O’Callaghan reports on a biography that unwraps the enigma

Trying to unwrap the great Coetzee enigma

Sat, 22 Jun, 2013 - 01:00

Billy O'Callaghan

J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing

J.C. Kannemeyer

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