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John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced "kut-SAY-uh") (born 9 February 1940) is a South African/Australian author, having emigrated from South Africa in 2002, and having been granted Australian citizenship on 6 March 2006. On 2 October 2003, it was announced that he was to be the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the fourth African born writer to be so honoured, and the second (as he then was) South African (after Nadine Gordimer). The prize was awarded in Stockholm on 10 December 2003. Image File history File links Coetzee. ...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual...
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Coetzee was born in Cape Town, and his formative years were spent between that city and the Western Cape town of Worcester, as recounted in his fictionalised memoir, Boyhood (1992). He was schooled at St. Joseph's College, a Catholic school in Rondebosch, Cape Town, and later studied at the University of Cape Town, where he took degrees in mathematics and English. City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Province Western Cape Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo Area - % water 1,644 km² 0. ...
Capital Cape Town Largest city Cape Town Premier Ebrahim Rasool Area - Total Ranked 4th 129,370 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 5th 4,524,335 35/km² Languages Afrikaans (55. ...
Worcester, South Africa is a town situated about 120 km from Cape Town, in the Breede River Valley. ...
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In the early 1960s he relocated to London, England, where he worked for a time at IBM as a computer programmer; his experiences there were later recounted in Youth (2002), his second volume of fictionalised memoirs. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
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Youth (or Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II) (2002) is a semi-autobiographical book by J. M. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town. ...
For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...
Coetzee was later awarded a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States, where he applied computerised stylistic analysis to the works of Samuel Beckett. After leaving Texas he taught English and literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in New York until 1971. The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ...
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In 1971 he sought permanent residence in the United States, but it was denied due to his involvement in protests against the US military intervention in Vietnam. He then returned to South Africa to a professorship in English Literature at the University of Cape Town. Upon retirement in 2002, he relocated to Adelaide, Australia, where he was made an honorary research fellow at the English department of the University of Adelaide. He served as professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago until 2003. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
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On 6 March 2006, he took Australian citizenship in a ceremony presided over by the Australian Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone. Following the ceremony, Coetzee stated, in speaking of his affection for Australia; "I was attracted by the free and generous spirit of the people, by the beauty of the land itself and - when I first saw Adelaide - by the grace of the city that I now have the honour of calling my home."
He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999. In 1987 he won the Jerusalem Prize for literature on the freedom of the individual in society. In addition to his novels, he has published critical works and translations from Dutch and Afrikaans. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by J.M. Coetzee. ...
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Disgrace cover Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society is a biennial literary award given to writers whose work has dealt with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. ...
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When awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, he was praised for "in innumerable guises [portraying] the involvement of the outsider." The press release for the award cited his "well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue, and analytical brilliance," while focusing on the moral nature of his work.
His partner is fellow University of Adelaide academic Dorothy Driver [1].
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Dusklands (1974) is the first novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
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Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South-African author J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. ...
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Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by J.M. Coetzee. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Foe is a novel by J. M. Coetzee published in 1986. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Age of Iron is a 1990 novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Disgrace cover Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Youth (or Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II) (2002) is a semi-autobiographical book by J. M. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town. ...
For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...
For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...
The fictitous but all too personal novel of J.M. Coetzee is framed around several lectures that Elizabeth Costello, a famed author for her work The House on Eccles Street which gave greater voice to Molly Bloom (of James Joyces Ulysses fame), has given throughout the fading years of...
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Slow Man is a 2005 novel by South African author J.M. Coetzee who has Australian citizinship. ...
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See also African Writers: This is a list of literary figures from Africa, including poets, novelists, childrens writers, essayists, and scholars. ...
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. Kertész best-known work, Fateless (Sorstalanság) describes...
Winners of the Nobel prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ...
Elfriede Jelinek talking to anti-government protesters in Vienna, June 2000 Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian feminist playwright and novelist. ...
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