Nobel prizewinner J.M. Coetzee's "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II" has an interesting look at his life as a computer programmer in London in the 1960s. N

Nobel prizewinner J.M. Coetzee's "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II" has an interesting look at his life as a computer programmer in London in the 1960s. Non Nobel-winner Michel Houellbecq's book "Whatever" is a dark but somewhat hilarious story obviously based on his former day job as a computer programmer.