Abstract
John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town in 1940 and studied in both South Africa and the United States. Currently a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he is the author of nine novels, including Dusklands (1974), In the Heart of the Country (1977), Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Life & Times of Michael K (1983), Foe (1986), Age of Iron (1990), The Master of Petersburg (1994), Disgrace (1999), and Elizabeth Costello (2003). His nonfiction writings include White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988), Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992), Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996), and Stranger Shores: Literary Essays (2001), as well as several translations from the Dutch and Afrikaans. Among the honors accord d Coetzee's works are England's prestigious Booker-McConnell Prize (twice), France's Prix Femina Etranger, and the Jerusalem Prize. At the University of Oklahoma, Coetzee served as a juror for 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and was the 2003 fellow of the Puterbaugh Conferences on World Literature. For extended coverage of Coetzee's work, see WLT 78:1 (JanuaryApril 2004): 3-29.
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