J.M. Coetzee

Elizabeth Costello

Aging writer delivers lectures exploring loss, identity, and mortality

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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.

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