J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983...

New work of fiction from one of our greatest living novelists. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003 and has twice won the Booker Prize. Explores the life of an Australian writer of international renown. "One of Coetzee's...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time....

J.M. Coetzee¿s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize...

A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker PrizeIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a...

A man and a boy arrive in a new land. The man catches sight of a woman he is certain is the boy's mother, and persuades her to assume the role. The boy is an exceptional child, but the school authorities insist he be sent to a special...

Slow Man von Coetzee, J. M.

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of...

A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction...

Diary of a Bad Year von Coetzee, J. M.

»Für einen Mann seines Alters, zweiundfünfzig, geschieden, hat er seiner Ansicht nach das Sexproblem recht gut im Griff.« Aber als der Literaturprofessor David Lurie aus Kapstadt eine Affäire mit einer Studentin anfängt, gerät sein...

Skeptisch und scharfsichtig sucht J. M. Coetzee in seinen Büchern nach einem Bild von der Welt, das nichts verkürzt oder beschönigt. Stilistisch meisterhaft und moralisch unbestechlich legt er das Nervenzentrum der Wirklichkeit bloß und...