Nobel Prize season is going on. The Swedish Academy awarded John Maxwell Coetzee the 2003 Nobel Literature Prize. On this, I felicitate Mr Coetzee for this gorgeous feat. Typically, this award is a slap on South African apartheid. He got the Booker Prize twice. I think the jury board of the Nobel Committee is judicious and sage enough to pick out suitable person. In future, Nobel Prize would be above controversy. We should panegyrise the great personalities. If we fail to do so, our civilisation will smash in time.

Hats off to Mr Coetzee!

Molla Mohammad Shaheen

Dept of English, University of Dhaka