J. M. Coetzee

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J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for his austere, morally probing fiction exploring power, cruelty, and the human condition.

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J. M. Coetzee canonical 9
Coetzee 1
John Maxwell Coetzee 1

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instanceOf Nobel Prize laureate
essayist
human
literary critic
novelist
translator
academicDegree PhD in linguistics
awardReceived Booker Prize
CNA Literary Award
Royal Society of Literature
surface form: Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature

Jerusalem Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature
birthCountry South Africa
birthDate 1940-02-09
birthPlace Cape Town
countryOfCitizenship Australia
South Africa
educatedAt University of Cape Town
University of Texas at Austin
employer University of Adelaide
University of Cape Town
familyName J. M. Coetzee self-linksurface differs
surface form: Coetzee
fieldOfWork linguistics
literature
fullName J. M. Coetzee self-linksurface differs
surface form: John Maxwell Coetzee
genre literary fiction
postcolonial literature
givenName John
hasWonBookerPrizeFor Disgrace
Life & Times of Michael K
isVegetarian true
language English
movement postmodernism
nobelPrizeCategory Literature
nobelPrizeYear 2003
notableWork Age of Iron
Diary of a Bad Year
Disgrace
Elizabeth Costello
Foe
Life & Times of Michael K
Slow Man
The Childhood of Jesus
The Death of Jesus
The Master of Petersburg
The Schooldays of Jesus
Waiting for the Barbarians
occupation essayist
novelist
translator
university teacher
positionHeld professor of literature
research fellow
residence Adelaide
South Australia
theme animal rights
apartheid
colonialism
cruelty
power
the human condition
writingLanguage English
writingStyle austere
morally probing

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Booker Prize notableRecipient J. M. Coetzee
Golden PEN Award notableRecipient J. M. Coetzee
Jerusalem Prize notableRecipient J. M. Coetzee
Nonino Prize notableRecipient J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee fullName J. M. Coetzee self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: John Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee familyName J. M. Coetzee self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Coetzee