David Malouf with J.M. Coetzee, Adelaide Writers Week

[Giovannisenzaterra]

He also has a cleaver very nice face

[Druggernaut]

My doctor's surname is Coetzee and I'm just here so I know how to pronounce it correctly lol. Seen him quite a few times now and always forgot to ask the correct pronunciation, would feel weird to ask him now.

I know I know, cool story bro.

[anycon]

why a wonder to behold? summertime for instance is full of humour.

[rebeckery]

don't get me wrong, I totally agree! Coetzee's wit is hugely underestimated. I think I meant that it was "a wonder to behold" in that it seems that he doesn't often set out to make people laugh in social sitations.

[handsomechuck1]

I like how a gent with a Nobel Prize (and every other award and honor you can think of)

says,"My name is John Coetzee," as if he's just some guy.

[cosmicbullfight]

If I won a million dollars, I'd spend it trying to get him and Joan Didion into the same room, although I get the weird feeling they'd regard each other like skittish housecats.

[ecp2014]

From what I've heard, these are probably the most consecutive words you will ever hear out of J.M. Coetzee.

[rebeckery]

nah, in his nobel banquet speech he actually almost sort of makes a joke. it's a wonder to behold.

[toadstool89]

@ecp2014 what do you mean? he doesn't like to talk in front of an audience?

[betapicts]

hi @ecp2014, well Coetzee is only reading in this vid, but see my vid: Beauty has a history 3/3

[flavadaveflynn]

coetzee is a genius

[8data]

Great Author, Special Man of the Arts and Letters

[timtatt001]

Youth is the best book I've ever read