J. M. Coetzee
9 February 1940 – present
J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist and translator who later became an Australian citizen. He wrote novels including Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace, becoming the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Born John Maxwell Coetzee to an Afrikaner family in Cape Town.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook degrees in English and in mathematics at the University of Cape Town.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked in the British computer industry, including for IBM, while writing in his spare time.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a dissertation involving computer-assisted stylistic analysis of the English prose of Samuel Beckett.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJoined the English department, where he taught for some three decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe two-part novel was issued by a South African publisher.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became the first author to be awarded the prize twice.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took Australian citizenship in 2006.
Source: en.wikipedia.org