Multiple choice softskills creativity

In the year 1999,Anita Desai's novel "Fasting, Feasting" was also in the title race of Man Booker Prize but ultimately lost to a novel called "Disgrace". Name the novelist who won that year.

  1. Ahdaf Soueif

  2. Colm Tóibín

  3. Michael Frayn

  4. J. M. Coetzee
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D Correct answer
Explanation

J.M. Coetzee, the South African novelist, won the 1999 Booker Prize for "Disgrace". Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" was indeed shortlisted that year but lost to Coetzee, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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