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Mall ofFew Words Everyone chases success，but not all of us want to be famous South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is__for keeping himself to himself When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month， reporters were warned that they would find himparticularly difficult to___. Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago He seemed___by the news that he won the US$1 3 million prize It came as a complete surprise.1 wasnt even aware they were due to make the announcement，he said. His___of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend Pnize-giving in Stockholm，Sweden，on December 10. But despite being described as____to track down，the critics agree that his Writing is easy to get to know Born in Cape Town，South Africa，to all English-speaking family，Coetzee___his breakthrough in 1980 with the novelWaiting for the BarbariansHe____ his place among the worlds leading writers with two Booker prize victories，Britains highest honour for novels He first_____in l983fortheLife and Times of Michael kand his second title came in 1999 forDisgrace A major theme in his work is South Africas former apartheidsystem，which divided whites from blacks____with the problems of violence，crime and racial division that still exist in the country his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid____within. | 
