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J. M. Coetzee
b. 1940
South African and Australian writer and scholar. Wrote Waiting for the Barbarians (2019).
The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.
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His Waiting for the Barbarians received both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Age of Iron was awarded the Sunday Express Book of the Year award, and The Master of Petersburg was awarded The Irish Times International Fiction Prize in 1995.
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In their own words
You behave as if everything I do is part of the story of your life. You are the main character, I am a minor character who doesn’t make an appearance until halfway through.
Disgrace (1999), page 198. · Wikiquote: J. M. Coetzee · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Films in this guide
2010s
- Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)screenwriter