Born in Cape Town, South Africa, J. M. Coetzee is the author of 20 books, including WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Award; THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K, for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983; BOYHOOD: Scenes from a Provincial Life, a memoir; and several essay collections. With DISGRACE, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Books by J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee