J. M. Coetzee
Academic, Nobel Laureate, and Author
The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 23, 2009...the fictionalized memoirs Boyhood and Youth that takes the form of a young biographer's interviews with colleagues of the late author John Coetzee. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature to the... In this article: John Coetzee, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Cape Town, Nobel Prize for Literature, Dean Koontz, and Boyhood |
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The Australian | 4 days ago
Battle for CBS content
...and effective story addressing animal protection in Australia". The judges, Bob Carr, Professor David Weisbrot, and writer J.M. Coetzee, will this week be making their decision on a winner to be announced on December 7. Taking a bath
In this article: Alan Kohler, Westpac Bank, Sydney, and The Age
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scotsman.com - Books | 5 days ago
Book review: The Humbling
...affairs with much younger women have become a distinct new genre in recent years. Lots of notable writers have had a go at it, including JM Coetzee who, in Diary of a Ba ADVERTISEMENT d Year, described his 72-year-old alter-ego "JC"...
In this article: Philip Roth, Suicide, Viagra, Surgery, JM Coetzee, and Dying Animal
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 14, 2009
Swedish museum returns human skulls to Hawaii
Long-list nominees for the 41st Man Booker Prize for fiction announced on Wednesday include two novelists ( A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee ) who share more than a preference for initials over whole names. Each is a previous winner. Byatt...
In this article: A.S. Byatt, Man Booker Prize, J.M. Coetzee, Hawaii, Athens, Stockholm, Chimpanzee, and Alzheimer's
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The Australian | November 10, 2009
University's e-press recasts publishing model
...from nowhere. The University of Adelaide Press was launched by Nobel prize-winning author and visiting professor of humanities J. M. Coetzee, who praised the aims of the "splendid new enterprise" to publish in electronic form scholarly...
In this article: University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, Australian National University, Dictum, Nobel Prize, Vascular surgery, and Neurosurgery
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Reuters | October 05, 2009
Author Coetzee eyes Booker triple, Mantel favorite
...with "Disgrace," is in contention with "Summertime," the story of a young biographer who is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. The work completes a trilogy of fictionalized memoirs for Nobel laureate Coetzee, 69,...
In this article: J.M. Coetzee, Man Booker Prize, A.S. Byatt, Youth, Sarah Waters, World War Two, John Clare, and King Henry VIII
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The Times of India - World | October 04, 2009
Can Coetzee pip Mantel to 3rd Booker?
REUTERS 5 October 2009, 01:16am IST LONDON: South African-born JM Coetzee could become the first writer to claim the coveted Man Booker Prize three times when the winner is announced on Tuesday, but bookmakers are predicting a different...
In this article: JM Coetzee, Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize, Reuters, and London
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washingtonpost.com | October 01, 2009
Movie Review: Film Version of J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' Lives Up to Its Source
...oppositions -- feels like a sophisticated, even great film. "Disgrace," an ambivalent 1999 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, documented the dark and violent side of post-apartheid life in South Africa. Now it is a movie...
In this article: Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee, John Malkovich, South Africa, and Suicide
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Telegraph.co.uk - Books | September 10, 2009
Summertime by J.M Coetzee: review
...tricksy memoir. And this is a very tricksy memoir. A researcher is investigating the life of John Coetzee, recently dead in Australia. He has some of Coetzee's notebooks at his disposal; he has also tracked down some of his lovers of the...
In this article: John Coetzee, Nobel Prize laureate, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, and United States
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Reuters | September 08, 2009
Byatt, Coetzee and Mantel top Man Booker shortlist
...times if he is named winner on October 6, tells the story of a young biographer who is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. As he interviews friends and relatives, a complex picture emerges of Coetzee's past and...
In this article: Man Booker Prize, Sarah Waters, Possession, Nobel Prize for Literature, and World War Two
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Independent.co.uk - Books | September 05, 2009
Summertime, By JM Coetzee
...as a misfit In JM Coetzee's latest work, an Englishman named Vincent is writing a biography of the great South African writer John Coetzee. Summertime is a series of interviews and fragmented, annotated entries from John Coetzee's...
In this article: John Coetzee, Neutering, Autism, South Africa, and Cape Town
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Description from Wikipedia:
John Maxwell Coetzee () (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia). A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Birth Date:
- February 09, 1940
- Birthplace:
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Citizenship:
- Australia / South Africa
- Occupation:
- Novelist, Essayist, Literary Critic, Linguist
- Influenced By:
- Samuel Beckett, Ford Madox Ford, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Daniel Defoe, Franz Kafka, Zbigniew Herbert, Samuel Richardson, Robert Walser
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