John M. Coetzee (1940- )

Awarded the Prize “for his piece in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider.”

John M. Coetzee is a novelist from South Africa who was born on 9 February 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1963, he was awarded the Master of Arts degree from the University of Cape Town. And in 1969 he received a PhD in Linguistics in the University of Texas in USA. He was the literary critic for New York Review of Books, Professor in the University of Cape Town. He migrated to Australia in 2002 he is the visiting professor for the University of Adelaide University of Chicago.
Major works:
Disgrace (1999); Waiting for the Barbarians (1980); Life & Times of Michael K (1983); Elizabeth Costello (2003)