Mr.J.M.Coetzee was in the news recently for which of the
following reasons?
1 He is the only author to win the Booker Prize twice
2 He has received the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
3 He won the Booker Prize for 1998
4 None of these
Answer / guest
(1) He is the only author to win the Booker Prize twice
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