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[Schizoid Man]

Fascinating piece of information this:

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200310/nr_coetzee031002.html

Hook 'em,
Schizoid

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> Fascinating piece of information this:
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> http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr 200310/nr coetzee031002.html

I'm having trouble with this URL. How about a tinyurl?

Stephen

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> In article >,
> "Schizoid Man" > wrote:
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> > Fascinating piece of information this:
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> > http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr 200310/nr
coetzee031002.html
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> Stephen

Hi Stephen,

Here's the text of the article:

October 2, 2003

AUSTIN, Texas-J.M. Coetzee, author of "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Life
and Times of Michael K," was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
today.

Coetzee, who received his Ph.D. in English in 1969 from The University of
Texas at Austin, sets most of his literary work in his native South Africa.
The Swedish Academy in Stockholm described his books as being "characterized
by their well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical
brilliance. But at the same time he is a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his
criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western
civilization."

He was recognized in 2001 by the university's Graduate School with the
Outstanding Alumnus Award.

"Both the state of Texas and The University of Texas were welcoming and
generous to me from the moment I arrived there in 1965," Coetzee said in the
November/December 2001 issue of The Alcalde magazine. "I learned a great
deal during my time as a student, as well as during my two subsequent
academic visits. It is a source of much satisfaction to me to have kept up
the connection with UT to the present day."

Dr. Tom Cable, of the Department of English, was a fellow graduate student
with Coetzee at the university.

"He was always very smart and an excellent writer, even as a grad student,"
Cable said. "I'm probably the first person to have taught his work in a
classroom. In 1967 or '68 he wrote a letter to The Daily Texan about the
Vietnam War-it was so subtly ironic I thought he was worth teaching even
then."

Coetzee returned to the university in 1995 as a visiting professor and later
participated in literary readings as well.