page_title: List of South Africans
section_title: Authors
hierarchical_section_title: List of South Africans / Writers / Authors
caption_attribution_description: John Maxwell Coetzee
context_page_description: This is a list of notable South Africans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles.
context_section_description: J.M. (John Maxwell) Coetzee (b. 1940), 2003 Nobel Prize-winning author
  Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), 1991 Nobel Prize-winning author
  Karel Schoeman (b. 1939), novelist and historian
  J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Lord of The Rings
caption: J.M. Coetzee
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