Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
"Intense, clear and powerful. The promise, so brilliantly fulfilled
in his later work, is clear in this earliest novel." —Daily
Telegraph
"Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being" -- Nadine
Gordimer
"Its unflinching sense of loss, its claustrophobic acknowledgement
of the unwilling interdependence of master and slave, and its
subtle prose-style, make it an extraordinary
achievement."― Guardian
"His writing gives off whiffs of Conrad, of Nabokov, of Golding, of
the Paul Theroux of The Mosquito Coast. But he is none of
these, he is a harsh, compelling voice." ― Sunday Times
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