# This year's Nobel Price laureate in literature **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091 "2003-10-02T10:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/1 "2003-10-02T10:54:41Z")
This year’s Nobel Price laureate in literature is South African writer JM Coetzee. You read it first here. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/2 "2003-10-02T11:25:14Z")
Indeed I did. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/3 "2003-10-02T12:25:46Z")
Wow - really? Cool. I look forward to the “official” announcement. If correct, they got one write. He’s brilliant. “Disgrace” by him - which won the Booker prize for 1999 - is the best book I have read in about 10 years. What was your source of info? It’s not on MSNBC or other websites yet… ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/4 "2003-10-02T12:29:33Z")
Woohoo! _high fives all around_ ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/5 "2003-10-02T12:47:02Z")
“Got one write” - eesh, didn’t even mean to be punny…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/6 "2003-10-02T13:02:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > Wow - really? Cool. I look forward to the “official” announcement. > > If correct, they got one write [sic!]. He’s brilliant. “Disgrace” by him - which won the Booker prize for 1999 - is the best book I have read in about 10 years. > > What was your source of info? It’s not on MSNBC or other websites yet… I listened to the official announcement on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/7 "2003-10-02T13:17:19Z")
Its [all over the net](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=Nobel). Just gotta’ know where to look =) ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/8 "2003-10-02T13:41:32Z")
Curses! I was holding out for Janet Frame (she was being tipped to win earlier today) Now I shall have to go out and read Disgrace, tho’ I think I’ve read it before… It’s not the one where the university professor winds up staying with his daughter, who is a… vet? possibly. If it the one I’m thinking of, he’s well deserving of it, I remember it being a fantastic book. As an aside, how do they pick Nobel prize winners. Is it by committee, or some sort of vote or what? ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/9 "2003-10-02T13:47:44Z")
And Google is my friend. It is indeed the same book, and an excellent book it is too. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/10 "2003-10-02T13:56:03Z")
Great - thanks for the links. Wow - I have never heard of Janet Frame - guess I should check her out… I am consistently amazed that Philip Roth is not at the top of the list - he has written so many critically acclaimed books, and has stayed at the top of his game well into his 60’s. I don’t particularly like his books myself, but can appreciate them and am stunned that he isn’t lauded more… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-nobel-price-laureate-in-literature/205091/11 "2003-10-02T14:58:46Z")
Heard this on the CBC around 8:15 this morning. Congratulations! 🙂