J.M. Coetzee urges you to follow every thought to its end, warning that dying foolishly is more shameful than death itself. He mentions the endless projects that fill a writer’s life, the habit of crushing insects underfoot, and the strange feeling of being a father at twelve.
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J.M. Coetzee is a South African‑Australian writer who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
About J.M. Coetzee
He writes novels, essays, works on language and translates books. Coetzee has received the Booker Prize twice and is often described as a highly acclaimed author in English.
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