
Disgrace
With Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker twice. Find out more about the 1999 novel that has taken on a new relevancy in the #MeToo era.
J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a multi-award-winning author, and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His works of fiction include Dusklands; Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honour, the Central News Agency Literary Award; and Life & 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 essay collections. In 1999, he again won the Booker Prize for Disgrace.
The ultimate prize to win in the English speaking world
— J.M. Coetzee, winning for the second time in 1999
Winner The Booker Prize 1999