The Bulletin
by Anne Susskind

This literary giant rarely gives interviews but the subject of animal mistreatment really gets his goat, Anne Susskind writes.

To J.M. Coetzee, words are precious. The 2003 Nobel Prize winner and twice winner of the Booker Prize for fiction doesn't talk much to the media or throw himself into public debate. But he has made an exception on behalf of a cause in which he believes passionately: the ill treatment of animals.

South African-born John Coetzee, who now lives in Adelaide , has taken on the role of patron for a new organisation, Voiceless, recently launched by Sydney businessman Brian Sherman and his daughter, Ondine.

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