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J M Coetzee


(John Maxwell Coetzee)
South Africa (b.1940)

JM Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Scenes from Provincial Life
   1. Boyhood (1997)
   2. Youth (2002)
   3. Summertime (2009)
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Jesus
   1. The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
   2. The Schooldays of Jesus (2016)
   3. The Death of Jesus (2020)
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Novels
   In the Heart of the Country (1977)
   Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
   The Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
   Foe (1986)
   Age of Iron (1990)
   The Master of Petersburg (1994)
   The Lives of Animals (1999)
   Disgrace (1999)
   Elizabeth Costello (2003)
   Slow Man (2005)
   Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
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Collections
   Dusklands (1974)
   Landscape with Rowers (poems) (2003)
   The Pole (2023)
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Anthologies edited
   A Land Apart (1986) (with André Brink)
   African Pens 2011 (2011)
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Non fiction show
 
J M Coetzee recommends
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Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing (2022)
Robin McLean
"Not since Faulkner have i read American prose so bristling with life and particularity."
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The New Adventures of Helen (2021)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
"In her best work Petrushevskaya steers a sure course between neutrally recording the degraded life of the Soviet-era urban underclass and ratcheting up the squalor of that life for the mere pleasure of it. She does so by the steadiness of her moral compass and the gaiety of her prose."
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Whoever Fears the Sea (2021)
Justin Fox
"A fast-paced tale of sailing-ship adventures."

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Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1980) : Waiting for the Barbarians
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1983) : The Life and Times of Michael K
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1999) : Disgrace
Nobel Prize in Literature Lifetime Achievement winner (2003)
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2005) : Slow Man
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2007) : Slow Man
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2009) : Summertime
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2016) : The Schooldays of Jesus


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