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J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee

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J.M. Coetzee is a multi-award-winning author, and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and became an Australian citizen in 2006. 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.

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J.M. Coetzee, winning for the second time in 1999

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Disgrace
Disgrace

Disgrace

Winner of The Booker Prize 1999

Published by
Secker & Warburg
J.M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker twice with this tale set in post-apartheid South Africa, where a professor’s complacency contributes to his utter downfall

Other nominated books

Life & Times of Michael K
Prize winner
In his first Booker Prize-winning novel, J.M. Coetzee sets his main character on an arduous physical journey, which becomes a quest for inner freedom
Elizabeth Costello
Despite her fame, a celebrated author continues the struggle to articulate her vision, in J.M. Coetzee’s exploration of the creative mind
Slow Man
A calamitous accident irrevocably changes one man’s life, in J.M. Coetzee’s unflinching portrayal of suffering and tenderness
Summertime
Sometimes heart-breaking, often funny, Summertime completes J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, begun with Boyhood and Youth
The Schooldays of Jesus
In this mesmerising allegorical tale, J.M. Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, and what it means to be a ‘parent’