South African author JM Coetzee has been awarded this year's Nobel Literature Prize.
Coetzee, whose novels include 'Disgrace', 'Waiting for the Barbarians' and 'In the Heart of the Country', was described as an author who was "ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilisation".
He takes home a prize sum of 10m kronor (€1.11m) and joins a list of winners which includes VS Naipaul, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus.
The author will receive the Nobel Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December.
