[michel__]

It's a shame to have lost such a literary great. His work will most definitely live on.

[Numberwang]

Is he dead?

[lobster_johnson]

Could be a sly reference to Summertime, an autobiographical novel (considered the third in the sequence that begins with Boyhood and Youth) in which Coetzee dies before finishing his biography.

Or just some weird kind of trolling.

[sleazy_b]

Not as far as I can tell