J. M. Coetzee
Biography
J. M. Coetzee
Born in Cape Town,
South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael 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, Coetzee was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
J. M. Coetzee
