AKA John Michael Coetzee

Born: 9-Feb-1940
Birthplace: Cape Town, South Africa

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist, Essayist

Nationality: South Africa
Executive summary: Reclusive South African novelist, essayist

    University: University of Cape Town
    University: University of Texas (postgraduate)
    Professor: SUNY Buffalo (-1971)
    Professor: English Literature, University of Cape Town (1971-2002)

    Booker Prize 1983 for Life and Times of Michael K.
    Booker Prize 1999 for Disgrace
    Nobel Prize for Literature 2003

Author of books:
Dusklands (1974, short stories)
In the Heart of the Country (1977, novel)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980, novel)
Life and Times of Michael K (1983, novel)
Foe (1986, novel)
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988)
Age of Iron (1990, novel)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992, essays)
The Master of Petersburg (1994, novel)
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1997, essays)
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1998)
Disgrace (1999, novel)
Youth (2002)

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications