John Maxwell Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia). A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is known as reclusive and eschews publicity to such an extent that he did not collect either of his two Booker Prizes in person. He married in 1963 and divorced in 1980. He had a daughter and a son from the marriage, but his son was killed at the age of 23 in an accident, an event Coetzee confronts in his 1994 novel The Master of Petersburg.
"a man of almost monkish self-discipline and dedication. He does not drink, smoke or eat meat. He cycles vast distances to keep fit and spends at least an hour at his writing-desk each morning, seven days a week. A colleague who has worked with him for more than a decade claims to have seen him laugh just once. An acquaintance has attended several dinner parties where Coetzee has uttered not a single word." - Rian Malan
Fiction
Dusklands (1974)
In the Heart of the Country (1977)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Foe (1986)
Age of Iron (1990)
The Master of Petersburg (1994)
Disgrace (1999)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Slow Man (2005)
Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
Fictionalised autobiography
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997)
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)
Non-fiction
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992)
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1997)
The Lives of Animals
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999 (2002)
Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005 (2007)
Translations/Introductions
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands Translated and Introduced by J. M. Coetzee (2004)
Introduction to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Oxford World's Classics)
Introduction to Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Penguin Classics)
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