J.M. Coetzee
South African novelist who has twice won the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His austere, elliptical fiction confronts colonialism, shame, and the limits of empathy. He is widely regarded as the greatest living novelist writing in English.
Works
- DisgraceDisgraced professor's moral degradation in post-apartheid South Africa
- Waiting for the BarbariansColonial magistrate questions torture and occupation in unnamed barbarian state
- Life and Times of Michael KVagabond man survives civil war in South Africa through quiet endurance
- Elizabeth CostelloAging writer delivers lectures exploring loss, identity, and mortality
- BoyhoodAutobiographical account of South African boyhood and spiritual awakening