The Swedish Academy has announced that the Nobel Literature prize has been awarded to South African author JM Coetzee. Coetzee, a two-time winner of Britain's top literary award, the Booker Prize, is the seventh South African Nobel Prize winner following Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk (Peace Prize) in 1993, Nadine Gordimer (Literature Prize) in 1991, Desmond Tutu (Peace Prize) in 1984, Albert Luthuli (Peace Prize) in 1960 and Max Theiler (Medicine Prize) in 1951.
