John Maxwell Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee is a South-African writer afrikaaner of expression English E, born the February 9th 1940 in the Cape (South Africa). It makes be reproduced only initial its first names, J. Mr., on his publications and if one agrees on the direction of the first (John), that of the second residence dubious (certain dictionaries write Michael).

After studies of letters and mathematics with the University of the Cape, J. Mr. Coetzee leaves for Great Britain. He works as programmer for IBM, then for International Computers, while nourishing literary ambitions. A purse enables him to resume its studies with the Université of Texas to Austin, where it supports a thesis of doctorate on the novels of Samuel Beckett. It finds South Africa in 1973. Its first novel, Dusklands , are published there in 1974.

Coetzee will teach then the literature at the university of Adélaïde in Australia. He is now professor with the Université of Chicago to the the United States.

He received many literary prizes of the first order, most important being the Nobel Prize of literature (2003). He is the only writer twice prize winner of the prestigious Booker Prize.

Rewards

CNA Literary Awards (1977, 1980,1983)
Booker Prize (1983) and (1999)
foreign Femina Price (1985)
Jerusalem Prize (1987)
Premio Mondello (1994)
International Irish Times Fiction Prize (1995)
the Commonwealth Literary Award (2000)
Nobel Prize of literature (2003)

Works translated into French

the Man slowed down (2006)
Elizabeth Costello (2004)
Towards the age of man (2002)
Disgrace (1999) - Booker Prize
Scenes of the life of a young boy (1997)
the Master of Pétersbourg (1994)
the iron Age (1990)
Foe (1986)
Michael K, her life, its time (1983) - Booker Prize and Price Foreign Femina
While waiting for the barbarians (1980)
In the middle of this country (1976) adapted to the cinema by Marion Hänsel under the title Dust .
Grounds of twilight (1974)

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