Jm coetzee biography book
Jm coetzee biography book
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J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
John Maxwell Coetzee[a]FRSLOMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.
Jm coetzee biography book pdf
He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
Coetzee moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2006. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is patron of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His most recently published book is The Pole and Other Stories (2023).
Early life and education
Coetzee was born in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, on 9 February 1940 to A