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John Maxwell Coetzee, born in Cape Town on 9 February , has become one of the world's most celebrated novelists....
Summertime follows them as fictionalised memoirs of Coetzee's life, and the title is a mordant joke from an author not famed for his wit.
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born )
John Maxwell Coetzee[a]FRSLOMG (born 9 February ) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
Amateur black-and-white shots taken by John Maxwell Coetzee in , when the future Nobel literature laureate was a schoolboy aged 15 orCoetzee moved to Australia in and became an Australian citizen in He lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is patron of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His most recently published book is The Pole and Other Stories ().
Early life and education
Coetzee was born in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, on 9 February to Afrikaner parents.[2]