Keys to Adelaide for Coetzee
19/02/2004 08:24  - (SA)  

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Sydney - Nobel laureate JM Coetzee is so settled in his new home in Australia that the famously reclusive South African-born author waxed lyrical about Adelaide as a "paradise on earth" when accepting the keys of the city from rapturous residents, news reports said on Thursday.

Coetzee, 64, moved to the South Australian state capital two years ago with his partner Dorothy Driver.

In accepting the honour, the two-time winner of the Booker Prize said he was fortunate to be able to spend half the year in Adelaide and the other half in the United States, where he is a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago.

"I can't pretend to have won this particular prize in the role of The Bard of Adelaide, and I probably won't live long enough to become the Bard of Adelaide," said the author of such novels as "Disgrace" and "Waiting for the Barbarians". - Sapa-dpa

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