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Biography of J. M. CoetzeeName: J. M. CoetzeeBirth Date: 1940 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa Nationality: South African Gender: Male Occupations: novelist, writer J. M. Coetzee J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) was a white South African novelist whose writings reflected strong anti-imperialist sentiments.John M. Coetzee, the son of a sheep farmer, was born in Cape Town in 1940 and was educated in both South Africa and the United States. He earned his B.A. at the University of Cape Town, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. After the Sharpeville crisis in South Africa in 1960 he spent ten years outside the country as a student, a lecturer, and an employee in a multi-national corporation. Returning to teach English at the University of Cape Town in 1971, he had a highly cosmopolitan outlook that tended to set him apart from most white South African writers. Indeed, he felt that his writing fit into no recognizably South African literary tradition and was more influenced by the vogue of postmodernist writing in Europe and America of the 1960s, which …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…being a truly multilingual writer, translating work into Dutch, German, French, and Afrikaans. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Booker-McConnell Prize (making literary history by winning twice), Central News Agency (CNA) Literary Award, the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, and the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003. Associated Works Life and Times of Michael K Further Reading Further information can be found in Coetzee's autobiography, Boyhood:Scenes from Provincial Life (1997); Stephen Watson, "Speaking: J. M. Coetzee" in Speak (May-June 1978); Peter Knox-Shaw, "Dusklands: A Metaphysics of Violence" in Contrast (September 1982); Paul Rich, "Tradition and Revolt in South African Fiction" in Journal of Southern African Studies (October 1982), and "Apartheid and the Decline of the Civilization Idea: An Essay on July's People and Waiting for the Barbarians" in Research in African Literature (Fall 1984); and Landeg White and Tim Couzens, Literature and Society in South Africa (London, 1984). |