Portrait of John M. Coetzee [picture] / Morris Zwi
- Bib ID:
- 3420627
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Zwi, Morris, 1958-
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- National Library of Australia digitised item
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- [between 1981 and 1998]
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10.1 cm.
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John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940, the elder of two children. During the years 1941-45 he served with the South African forces in North Africa and Italy. He received his primary schooling in Cape Town and in the nearby town of Worcester. For his secondary education he attended a school in Cape Town run by a Catholic order, the Marist Brothers. He matriculated in 1956. He entered the University of Cape Town in 1957, and in 1960 and 1961 graduated successively with honours degrees in English and mathematics. He spent the years 1962-65 in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. In 1965 he entered the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1968 graduated with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages. His doctoral dissertation was on the early fiction of Samuel Beckett. From 1972 until 2000 he held a series of positions at the University of Cape Town, the last of them as Distinguished Professor of Literature.
Between 1984 and 2003 he also taught frequently in the United States. He began writing fiction in 1969. His first book, Dusklands, was published in South Africa in 1974. In the Heart of the Country (1977) won South Africa's then principal literary award, the CNA Prize, and was published in Britain and the USA. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) received international notice. His reputation was confirmed by Life & Times of Michael K (1983), which won Britain's Booker Prize. It was followed by Foe (1986), Age of Iron (1990), The Master of Petersburg (1994), and Disgrace (1999), which again won the Booker Prize. He has also been active as a translator of Dutch and Afrikaans literature. In 2002 Coetzee emigrated to Australia. He lives with his partner Dorothy Driver in Adelaide, South Australia, where he holds an honorary position at the University of Adelaide. In 2003 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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