Coetzee editor stands by for a podium record

Booker prize hat-trick contender will sit out the dinner in Adelaide

JM Coetzee in the running for Booker hat-trick

South African author is on the shortlist again along with AS Byatt, but the bookies have made Hilary Mantel favourite

JM Coetzee up for a record third Man Booker Prize

The South African-born novelist is longlisted for his new novel, Summertime