John Maxwell Coetzee
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Coetzee entered the University of Cape Town in 1957, and in 1960 and 1961 graduated successively with honours degrees in English and mathematics. He spent the years 1962–65 in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. In 1968 he graduated from the University of Texas with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic Languages. Coetzee’s published work consists of fiction, fictionalised autobiographies (which he terms ‘autrebiography’), and non-fiction.In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
*Booker Prize, ”Life and Times of Michael K” *Booker Prize, ”Disgrace”
Age of iron | Age of iron / | Disgrace / | Elizabeth Costello / | Foe | Foe / | In the heart of the country / | In the heart of the country : | Stranger shores : | Summertime : | The lives of animals | The lives of animals / | Waiting for the barbarians / | Youth /