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Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success，but not all of US want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is _l_ 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 him “particularly difficult to _2_ ”
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed _3_ by the news he won the US$1.3 million prize.“It came as a complete surprise.I wasn’t even aware they were due to make the announcement.”he said.
His _4_ pf privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize.giving in Stockholm，Sweden，on December 10.
But despite being described as _5_ 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 _6_ his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel“Waiting for the Barbarians”.He _7_ his place among the world’s leading writers with two Booker prize victories，Britain’S highest honour for novels.He first _8_ in 1983 for the“Life and Times of Michael K”.and his second title came in 1999 for“Disgrace”.
A major theme in his work iS South Africa’s former apartheid system.which divided whites from blacks. _9_ with the problems of violence，crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid _10_ within.
“I have always been more interested in the past than the future。”he said in a rare interview.“The past _11_ its shadow over the present.I hope I have made one or two people think _12_ about whether they want to forget the past completely.”
In fact this purity in his writing seems to be _13_ in his personal life.Coetzee is a vegetarian，a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn’t drink alcoho
