JM Coetzee turns up in Stockholm to accept his Nobel. “Although he did not turn up to collect either of his Booker Prizes in 1993 and 1999, he delivered this year’s Nobel Lecture last night and will receive the prize itself on Wednesday. What Coetzee will not do is make himself available for interview. He belongs to that small band of heroic writers who – without being as reclusive as Pynchon or Salinger – have declined to make themselves available for publicity purposes.”