Birthday: 9 February 1940, Cape Town, South Africa
Birth Name: John Maxwell Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa as John Maxwell Coetzee. He is a writer, known for Disgrace (2008), Dust (1985) and The Lives of Animals (2002).
Nelson Mandela has died after a long life - long yet lamentably truncated in that he spent twenty-se...Show more »
Nelson Mandela has died after a long life - long yet lamentably truncated in that he spent twenty-seven of the best years of his manhood incarcerated at the pleasure of the state. He was, and by the time of his death universally held to be, a great man. He well may be the last of the great men, as the concept of greatness retires into the historical shadows. Show less «
