Question: Nevil Shute and J. M. Coetzee, have which occupation in common?
Context: Australia, unlike Europe, does not have a long history in the genre of science fiction.  Nevil Shute's "On the Beach", published in 1957, and filmed in 1959, was perhaps the first notable international success.  Though not born in Australia, Shute spent his latter years there, and the book was set in Australia.  It might have been worse had the imports of American pulp magazines not been restricted during WWII, forcing local writers into the field.  Various compilation magazines began appearing in the 1960s and the field has continued to expand into some significance.  Today Australia has a thriving SF/Fantasy genre with names recognised around the world.  In 2013 a trilogy by Sydney-born Ben Peek was sold at auction to a UK publisher for a six-figure deal . Summertime is a 2009 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.  It is the third in a series of fictionalized memoirs by Coetzee (the first two being "" and "") and details the life of one John Coetzee from the perspective of five people who have known him.  The novel largely takes place in the mid to late 1970s, largely in Cape Town, although there are also important scenes in more remote South African settings.  While there are obvious similarities between the actual writer of the novel, J. M. Coetzee, and the subject of the novel, John Coetzee, there are some differences - most notably that the John Coetzee of the novel is reported as having died.  Within the novel, the opinions and thoughts of the five people are compiled and interpreted by a fictitious biographer, who also adds fragments from John Coetzee's notebooks.  It was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize.  Coetzee was already a two-time winner of the award and it is for this reason that literary commentator Merritt Moseley believes he did not win it for "Summertime". John Maxwell "J. M." Coetzee (] , ; ] ; born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide.  He became an Australian citizen in 2006. A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is an economic development and romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.  Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice" i.e. Alice Springs. Trustee from the Toolroom is a novel written by Nevil Shute.  Shute died in January 1960; "Trustee" was published posthumously later that year. In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in 1953.  It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute.  It later formed the basis of the 1951 film "No Highway in the Sky".  The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural. Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.  He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice". Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute.  It was first published in 1954.  "Slide Rule" concentrates on Nevil Shute's work in aviation, ending in 1938 when he left the industry. Coetzee v Government of the Republic of South Africa; Matiso and Others v Commanding Officer, Port Elizabeth Prison, and Others is an important case in South African law, with an especial bearing on civil procedure and constitutional law.  It concerned the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Magistrates' Courts Act.  It was heard, March 6, 1995, in the Constitutional Court by Chaskalson P, Mahomed DP, Ackermann J, Didcott J, Kentridge AJ, Kriegler J, Langa J, Madala J, Mokgoro J, O'Regan J and Sachs J.  They delivered judgment on September 22.  The applicant's attorneys were the Legal Resources Centres of Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg.  Attorneys for the first and second respondents in the Coetzee application were the State Attorneys of Cape Town and Johannesburg, and Du Plessis & Eksteen for the Association of Law Societies.  IMS Navsa SC (with him L. Mpati) appeared for the applicants in both matters, D. Potgieter for the first and second respondents in the Coetzee matter, and JC du Plessis for the Association of Law Societies (as "amicus curiae").
Answer: novelist