Name
Pronunciation
J M Coetzee: cut-ZEE-uh
Biography
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. 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 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
*Sources differ as to whether J. M. Coetzee stands for John Michael or
John Maxwell. His publisher's site lists him as John Michael, as does
biography.com. However, the Nobel site and some others show him as John
Maxwell. BookBrowse believes that Maxwell is correct.
This biography was last updated on 11/04/2003.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=939
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2008/2009
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