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J. M. Coetzee
Novelist; two-time Booker Prize winner and Nobel laureate in Literature
The writer who made silence louder than protest.
The rise
Born on 9 February 1940 in Cape Town, he studied mathematics and English, earned a PhD in linguistics at the University of Texas, and returned to teach at the University of Cape Town. His spare, allegorical novels dissected power and conscience under apartheid and beyond.
What they did
The full picture
Why it matters
What citizens said
Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021–2023) — South Africa
Trust in president27%
Trust in parliament23%
Trust in courts50%
% who say 'trust somewhat' or 'trust a lot' · Afrobarometer Dispatch No. 891
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