| Front | J M Coetzee |
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| Back | 1940 south African novelist writing about the victims of imperialism, neo-colonialism, and apartheid Dusklands 1974; consists of two closely related novellas , one about America and Vietnam, the other about the 18th Boer pioneer, both protagonist exercising power brutality over people considered inferior Heart of the country 1977: presents the patricidal fantasies of a rebellious Afrikaner spinster , trying vainly to reorder her life imaginatively John Maxwell Coetzee (/kʊtˈsiː/)[a] (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also won the Booker Prize twice, the Jerusalem Prize, CNA Prize (thrice), the Prix Femina étranger, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as other awards and honours, holds a number of honorary doctorates and is one of the most acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. Coetzee's first novel was Dusklands (1974) and he has continued to produce novels at the rate of about one every three years. He has also written autobiographical novels, such as Boyhood, Youth and Summertime, short fiction, translations from Dutch and Afrikaans, and numerous essays and works of criticism |
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