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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
 
New Books
September 2023

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The Pole
 
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)
   The Pole (2023)
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Anthologies edited
   A Land Apart (1986) (with André Brink)
   Landscape with Rowers (2003)
   African Pens 2011 (2011)
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Non fiction
   White Writing (1988)
   Doubling the Point (1992)
   Giving Offense (1996)
   The Novel in Africa (1999)
   Stranger Shores (2001)
   The Nobel Lecture in Literature 2003 (2004)
   Inner Workings (2007)
   Here and Now (2012) (with Paul Auster)
   The Good Story (2015) (with Arabella Kurtz)
   Late Essays (2017)
   Photographs from Boyhood (2020)
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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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