J.M. Coetzee

Nobel Prize in Literature 2003

J. M. Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town, studied in South Africa and the United States, and currently lives in Australia.
Among his works, the following stand out. In the Heart of this Earth, Waiting for the Barbarians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1982), The Life and Times of Michael K. (Award Booker 1983), Disgrace (Award Booker 1999), Diary of a Bad Year – a novel in which the author divided the page into three distinct narrative planes, in a daring experiment between fiction and essay –, Summer (finalist for the Award) Booker 2009), the acclaimed Jesus trilogy – The Childhood of Jesus, Jesus at School and The Death of Jesus - and The Pole.
Having been the first writer to win the Prize twice BookerCoetzee also saw his literary mastery recognized with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.