Question: Which novelist began writing earlier, Joseph Roth or J. M. Coetzee?
Sentence (from "Joseph Roth"): Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga "Radetzky March" (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, "Job" (1930), and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English in "The Wandering Jews"), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Relevant evidence: Yes