J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell J. M. Coetzee (/ktsi/, kuut-SEE;[1]born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essay-ist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 NobelPrize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002and lives in Adelaide.[2] He became an Australian citizenin 2006.[3]

In 2013, Richard Poplak of the Daily Maverick describedCoetzee as inarguably the most celebrated and decoratedliving English-language author.[4] Before receiving the2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee was awardedthe Jerusalem Prize, CNA Prize (thrice), the Prix Feminatranger, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize andthe Booker Prize (twice), among other accolades.

1 Early life and academiaBorn in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of SouthAfrica, on 9 February 1940 to Afrikaner parents,[5][6]his father, Zacharias Coetzee, was an occasional lawyerand government employee, and his mother, Vera Co-etzee (born Wehmeyer), a schoolteacher.[7][8] The fam-ily spoke English at home, but J M spoke Afrikaanswith other relatives.[7] He is descended from early Dutchimmigrants to South Africa in the 17th century,[9][10]while his mother was a descendant of German and Polishimmigrants.[2][11]

Coetzee spent most of his early life in Cape Town andin Worcester in Cape Province (modern-day WesternCape) as recounted in his ctionalized memoir, Boyhood(1997). The family moved to Worcester when he waseight, after his father had lost his government job.[8]He attended St. Josephs College, a Catholic school inthe Cape Town suburb of Rondebosch,[12] later studyingmathematics and English at the University of Cape Townand receiving his Bachelor of Arts with Honours in En-glish in 1960 and his Bachelor of Arts with Honours inMathematics in 1961.[13][14]

He then relocated to the United Kingdom, in 1962,worked as a computer programmer for IBM in London,staying until 1965.[7] In 1963, while still in the UK, wasawarded a Master of Arts degree from the University ofCape Town for a thesis on the novels of FordMadox Fordentitled The Works of Ford Madox Ford with Particu-lar Reference to the Novels (1963).[7] His experiences inEngland were later recounted in Youth (2002), his secondvolume of ctionalised memoirs.Coetzee went to the University of Texas at Austin, in the

United States, on the Fulbright Program in 1965. Re-ceiving a PhD in linguistics there in 1969. His PhDthesis was on computer stylistic analysis of the worksof Samuel Beckett and was entitled The English Fic-tion of Samuel Beckett: An Essay in Stylistic Analysis(1968).[7] In 1968, he began teaching English literatureat the State University of New York at Bualo where hestayed until 1971.[7] It was at Bualo that he began hisrst novel, Dusklands.[7] In 1971, he sought permanentresidence in the United States, which was denied, due tohis involvement in anti-Vietnam-War protests. In March1970, he had been one of 45 faculty members who occu-pied the universitys Hayes Hall and were subsequently ar-rested for criminal trespass.[15] He then returned to SouthAfrica to teach English literature at the University ofCape Town, where he was promoted Professor of Gen-eral Literature in 1983 and was Distinguished Professorof Literature between 1999 and 2001.[7] Upon retiring in2002 and relocating to Adelaide, Australia, he was madean honorary research fellow at the English Department ofthe University of Adelaide,[16] where his partner, DorothyDriver,[14] is a fellow academic,[17] and served as profes-sor on the Committee on Social Thought at the Universityof Chicago until 2003.[18]

2 Awards and recognition

Coetzee has been the recipient of numerous awardsthroughout his career, although he has a reputation foravoiding award ceremonies.[19]

2.1 Booker Prizes, 1983 and 1999

He was the rst writer to be awarded the Booker Prizetwice: rst for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, andagain forDisgrace in 1999.[20][21] Two other authors havesince managed this Peter Carey (in 1988 and 2001)and Hilary Mantel (in 2009 and 2012).Summertime, named on the 2009 longlist,[22] was an earlyfavourite to win an unprecedented third Booker Prize forCoetzee.[23][24] It subsequently made the shortlist, but lostout to bookmakers favourite and eventual winner WolfHall by Hilary Mantel.[25] Coetzee was also longlisted in2003 for Elizabeth Costello and in 2005 for Slow Man.[26]

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2 5 PHILOSOPHY

2.2 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003On 2 October 2003, Horace Engdahl, head of theSwedish Academy, announced that Coetzee had beenchosen as that years recipient of the Nobel Prize in Lit-erature, making him the fth African writer to be sohonoured[27] and the second South African after NadineGordimer.[28] When awarding the prize, the SwedishAcademy stated that Coetzee in innumerable guisesportrays the surprising involvement of the outsider.[29]The press release for the award also cited his well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analyticalbrilliance, while focusing on the moral nature of hiswork.[29] The prize ceremony was held in Stockholm on10 December 2003.[28]

2.3 Other awards and recognitionA three-time winner of the CNAPrize,[30] Waiting for theBarbarians received both the James Tait Black Memo-rial Prize and the Georey Faber Memorial Prize,[31]Age of Iron was awarded the Sunday Express Bookof the Year award,[32] and The Master of Petersburgwas awarded The Irish Times International Fiction Prizein 1995.[26] He has also won the French Prix Feminatranger, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the1987 Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individualin Society.[31][32][33]

Coetzee was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe (goldclass) by the South African government on 27 Septem-ber 2005 for his exceptional contribution in the eldof literature and for putting South Africa on the worldstage.[34] He holds honorary doctorates fromTheAmeri-can University of Paris,[35] the University of Adelaide,[36]La Trobe University,[37] the University of Natal,[38] theUniversity of Oxford,[39] Rhodes University,[40] the StateUniversity of New York at Bualo,[32] the University ofStrathclyde,[32] the University of Technology, Sydney[41]and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna[42]

In November 2014, Coetzee was honoured with a three-day academic conference entitled JM Coetzee in theWorld, held in his adopted city of Adelaide. It was de-scribed as the culmination of an enormous collaborativeeort and the rst event of its kind in Australia and areection of the deep esteem in which John Coetzee isheld by Australian academia.[43]

3 Public imageCoetzee is known as reclusive and avoids publicity to suchan extent that he did not collect either of his two BookerPrizes in person.[44][45] South African writer Rian Malanhas said that:

Coetzee is a man of almost monkish self-

discipline and dedication. He does not drink,smoke, or eat meat. He cycles vast distancesto keep t and spends at least an hour at hiswriting-desk each morning, seven days a week.A colleague who has worked with him for morethan a decade claims to have seen him laughjust once. An acquaintance has attended sev-eral dinner parties where Coetzee has utterednot a single word.[46]

Asked about this comment in an interview by email, Co-etzee said, I have met Rian Malan only once in my life.He does not know me and is not qualied to talk aboutmy character. [47]

As a result of his reclusive nature, signed copies of Coet-zees ction are highly sought after.[48] Recognising this,he was a key gure in the establishment of Oak TreePress's First Chapter Series, limited edition signed worksby literary greats to raise money for the child victims andorphans of the African HIV/AIDS crisis.[49]

4 Personal lifeHe married Philippa Jubber in 1963[50] and divorced in1980.[8] He has a daughter, Gisela (born 1968) and a son,Nicolas (born 1966) from this marriage.[50] Nicolas diedin 1989 at the age of 23 in an accident.[8][50][51][52][53]

On 6 March 2006, Coetzee became an Australiancitizen,[16] and it has been argued that his acquired 'Aus-tralianness is deliberately adopted and stressed.[43]

Coetzees younger brother, the journalist David Coetzee,died in 2010.[54]

5 Philosophy

5.1 South Africa

Along with Andr Brink and Breyten Breytenbach, Co-etzee was, according to Fred Pfeil, at the forefront ofthe anti-apartheid movement within Afrikaner literatureand letters.[55] On accepting the JerusalemPrize in 1987,Coetzee spoke of the limitations of art in South Africansociety, whose structures had resulted in deformed andstunted relations between human beings and a de-formed and stunted inner life. He went on to say thatSouth African literature is a literature in bondage. It is aless than fully human literature. It is exactly the kind ofliterature you would expect people to write from prison.He called on the South African government to abandon itsapartheid policy.[33] Scholar Isidore Diala states that J. M.Coetzee, NadineGordimer andAndr Brink are three ofSouth Africas most distinguished white writers, all withdenite anti-apartheid commitment.[56]

5.3 Law 3

It has been argued that Coetzees 1999 novel Disgrace al-legorises South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Com-mission.[57] Asked about his views on the TRC, Coetzeehas stated: In a state with no ocial religion, the TRCwas somewhat anomalous: a court of a certain kind basedto a large degree on Christian teaching and on a strand ofChristian teaching accepted in their hearts by only a tinyproportion of the citizenry. Only the future will tell whatthe TRC managed to achieve.[58]

Following his Australian citizenship ceremony, Coetzeesaid that I did not so much leave South Africa, a coun-try with which I retain strong emotional ties, but cometo Australia. I came because from the time of my rstvisit in 1991, I was attracted by the free and generousspirit of the people, by the beauty of the land itself and when I rst saw Adelaide by the grace of the city thatI now have the honour of calling my home.[16] Whenhe initially moved to Australia, he had cited the SouthAfrican governments lax attitude to crime in that coun-try as a reason for the move, leading to a spat with ThaboMbeki, who, speaking of Coetzees novel Disgrace statedthat SouthAfrica is not only a place of rape.[44] In 1999,the African National Congress submission to an inves-tigation into racism in the media by the South AfricanHuman Rights Commission named Disgrace as a novelexploiting racist stereotypes.[59] However, when Coetzeewon his Nobel Prize, Mbeki congratulated him on be-half of the South African nation and indeed the continentof Africa.[60]

5.2 Politics

Coetzee has never specied any political orientation,though has alluded to politics in his work. Writing abouthis past in the third person, Coetzee states inDoubling thePoint that:

Politically, the raznochinets can go eitherway. But during his student years he, this per-son, this subject, my subject, steers clear ofthe right. As a child in Worcester he has seenenough of the Afrikaner right, enough of itsrant, to last him a lifetime. In fact, even beforeWorcester he has perhaps seen more of crueltyand violence than should have been allowed toa child. So as a student he moves on the fringesof the left without being part of the left. Sym-pathetic to the human concerns of the left, heis alienated, when the crunch comes, by its lan-guage by all political language, in fact.[61]

Asked about the latter part of this quote in an interview,Coetzee said:

There is no longer a left worth speaking of,and a language of the left. The language of

politics, with its new economistic bent, is evenmore repellent than it was fteen years ago.[58]

5.3 LawIn 2005, Coetzee criticised contemporary anti-terrorismlaws as resembling those employed by the apartheidregime in South Africa: I used to think that the peo-ple who created [South Africas] laws that eectively sus-pended the rule of law were moral barbarians. Now Iknow they were just pioneers ahead of their time.[62] Themain character in Coetzees 2007 Diary of a Bad Year,which has been described as blending memoir with c-tion, academic criticism with novelistic narration and re-fusing to recognize the border that has traditionally sep-arated political theory from ctional narrative,[63] sharessimilar concerns about the policies of John Howard andGeorge W. Bush.[64]

5.4 AnimalsIn recent years, Coetzee has become a vocal criticof animal cruelty and advocate for the animal rightsmovement.[65] In a speech given on his behalf by HugoWeaving in Sydney on 22 February 2007, Coetzee railedagainst the modern animal husbandry industry.[66] Thespeech was for Voiceless, the animal protection institute,an Australian non-prot animal protection organization,of which he became a patron in 2004.[67] Coetzees ctionhas similarly engaged with the problems of animal crueltyand animal welfare, in particular his books Disgrace, TheLives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and in the short storyThe OldWoman and the Cats which has as its protagonistElizabeth Costello. He is vegetarian.[68]

Coetzee wanted to be a candidate in the 2014 EuropeanParliament election for the Dutch Party for the Animals.His candidature was however rejected by the Dutch elec-tion board, which argued that candidates had to prove le-gal residence in the European Union to be allowed.

6 BibliographyCoetzees published work consists of ction, ction-alised autobiographies (in the mode of what he termsautrebiography),[69] criticism, translations, poetry,screenplays, and letters. In addition, Coetzee has pub-lished critical works and translations from Dutch andAfrikaans.[48]

6.1 Novels Dusklands (1974) ISBN 0-14-024177-9 In the Heart of the Country (1977) ISBN 0-14-006228-9

4 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) ISBN 0-14-006110-X

Life & Times of Michael K (1983) ISBN 0-14-007448-1

Foe (1986) ISBN 0-14-009623-X Age of Iron (1990) ISBN 0-14-027565-7 The Master of Petersburg (1994) ISBN 0-14-023810-7

Disgrace (1999) ISBN 978-0-14-311528-1 Elizabeth Costello (2003) ISBN 0-670-03130-5 Slow Man (2005) ISBN 0-670-03459-2 Diary of a Bad Year (2007) ISBN 1-84655-120-X The Childhood of Jesus (2013) ISBN 978-1-84655-726-2

6.2 Short Fiction A House in Spain Architectural Digest 57, no. 10(2000): 68-76.

The Lives of Animals (1999) ISBN 0-691-07089-X The African Experience Preservation 54, no. 2(2002): 20-24.

As a Woman Grows Older (2004). In: New YorkReview of Books 15 January 2004

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003: He and HisMan (2004) ISBN 0-14-303453-7

The Old Woman and the Cats (2013). In:J.M. Coetzee and Berlinde De Bruyckere:Cripplewood/Kreupelhout ISBN 0-300-19657-1

Three Stories (2014) ISBN 978-1-92218-256-2.The stories are: I. A House in Spain II. Nietver-loren (rst published as The African Experience)III. He and His Man)

6.3 Fictionalised autobiography Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) ISBN0-14-026566-X

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) ISBN0-670-03102-X

Summertime (2009) ISBN 1-84655-318-0 Scenes from Provincial Life (2011) ISBN 1-84655-485-3. An edited single volume of Boyhood: Scenesfrom Provincial Life, Youth: Scenes from ProvincialLife II, and Summertime.

6.4 Criticism and letters

Truth in Autobiography (Cape Town: University ofCape Town Press, 1984)

White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in SouthAfrica (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,1988) ISBN 0-300-03974-3

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, ed.David Attwell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress, 1992) ISBN 0-674-21518-4

Giving Oense: Essays on Censorship (Chicago, IL:University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 0-226-11176-8

Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 19861999 (Lon-don: Secker &Warburg, 2001) ISBN 0-14-200137-6

Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 20002005 (Lon-don: Harvill Secker, 2007) ISBN 0-09-950614-9

Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011 (New York, NY:Viking, 2013) ISBN 0-670-02666-2, a collection ofletters exchanged with Paul Auster

The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction andPsychotherapy, with Arabella Kurtz (New York,NY: Viking, 2015) ISBN 978-0-525-42951-7

6.5 Translations and introductions

A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants(Boston: Twayne, 1976 & London: Quartet, 1986).Translated and Introduced by J. M. Coetzee. ISBN0-8057-8152-8

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stock-enstrm (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1983 &London: Faber, 1984). Translated by J. M. Coet-zee. ISBN 0-571-13112-3

Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Nether-lands (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,2004). Translated and Introduced by J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0-691-12385-3

Introduction to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe(Oxford Worlds Classics) ISBN 0-19-210033-5

Introduction to Brighton Rock by Graham Greene(Penguin Classics) ISBN 0-14-243797-2

Introduction to Dangling Man by Saul Bellow (Pen-guin Classics) ISBN 0-14-303987-3

Introduction to The Vivisector by Patrick White(Penguin, 1999) ISBN 0-14-310567-1

5 Introduction to The Confusions of Young Trless byRobert Musil (Penguin Classics, 2001) ISBN 978-0-14-218000-6

Introduction to Samuel Beckett: The Grove Cente-nary Edition vol. IV by Samuel Beckett, edited byPaul Auster (New York: Grove Press, 2006) ISBN0-8021-1820-8

6.6 Film and television adaptations

Dust, dir. Marion Hnsel (1985): An adaptation ofIn the Heart of the Country.

The Lives of Animals, dir. Alex Harvey (2002).

De Muze/The Muse, dir. Ben van Lieshout (2007).An adaptation of Youth: Scenes from Provincial LifeII.

Disgrace, dir. Steve Jacobs (2008).

While the above four adaptations were not writtenby him, Coetzee has penned screenplays for In theHeart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbar-ians. These have yet to be produced, but are pub-lished in J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays, ed. Her-mann Wittenberg (Cape Town: University of CapeTown Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-77582-080-2

6.7 Collaborations

In 2012, Coetzee wrote the libretto for the operaSlowMan by Nicholas Lens, based on his novel SlowMan. The opera was given its world premiere on 5July 2012 at the Malta Festival, Grand Theatre, Poz-na[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77]

7 Further reading Dovey, Teresa (1988). The Novels of J.M. Coetzee:

Lacanian allegories. Johannesburg: Ad. Donker.ISBN 0-86852-132-9.

Penner, Dick (1989). Countries of the Mind: TheFiction of J. M. Coetzee. New York, NY: Green-wood Press. ISBN 0-313-26684-0.

Gallagher, Susan VanZanten (1991). A Story ofSouth Africa: J.M. Coetzees Fictions in Context.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN0-674-83972-2.

Attwell, David (1993). J. M. Coetzee: South Africaand the Politics ofWriting. Berkeley, CA: Universityof California Press. ISBN 0-520-07812-8.

Kossew, Sue (1996). Pen and Power: A Post-Colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and Andr Brink.Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-0094-0.

Head, Dominic (1997). J. M. Coetzee. Cam-bridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48232-5.

Attridge, David (2004). J. M. Coetzee and the Ethicsof Reading: Literature in the Event. Chicago, IL:University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-03117-0.

Canepari-Labib, Michela (2005). Old Myths-Modern Empires: Power, Language, and Identity inJ. M. Coetzees work. Oxford; New York, NY: PeterLang. ISBN 0-8204-7191-7.

Fiorella, Lucia (2006). Figure del Male nella narra-tiva di J.M. Coetzee. Pisa, Italy: ETS. ISBN 88-467-1382-6.

Wright, Laura (2006). Writing 'out of all the camps:J. M. Coetzees Narratives of Displacement. NewYork, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-97707-4.

Maso, Sawomir (2007). Pre-Versions of theTruth: The Novels of J.M. Coetzee. Katowice: Uni-versity of Silesia. ISBN 978-83-226-1721-2.

Mulhall, Stephen (2008). The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee and the Diculty of Reality in Literatureand Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversityPress. ISBN 978-0-691-13737-7.

Poyner, Jane (2009). J. M. Coetzee and the Para-dox of Postcolonial Authorship. Farnham; Burling-ton, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5462-9.

Clarkson, Carrol (2009). J. M. Coetzee: Coun-tervoices. Basingstoke; New York, NY: PalgraveMacmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-22156-7.

Nashef, Hania A.M. (2009). The Politics of Humili-ation in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee. New York, NY:Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-65260-5.

Marais, Mike (2009). Secretary of the Invisible: TheIdea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee.Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-2712-6.

Head, Dominic (2009). The Cambridge Introductionto J.M. Coetzee. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress. ISBN 978-0-521-68709-6.

Dooley, Gillian (2010). J. M. Coetzee and the PowerofNarrative. NewYork: Cambria Press. ISBN978-1-60497-673-1.

van der Vlies, Andrew (2010). J.M. Coetzees 'Dis-grace'. New York, NY: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-0661-0.

6 7 FURTHER READING

Hayes, Patrick (2010). J. M. Coetzee and the Novel:Writing and Politics After Beckett. Oxford; NewYork, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958795-7.

Lpez, Mara J. (2011). Acts of Visitation: The Nar-rative of J. M. Coetzee. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN978-90-420-3407-5.

MacFarlane, Elizabeth (2013). Reading Coetzee.Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-3701-4.

Hallemeier, Katherine (2013). J. M. Coetzee andthe Limits of Cosmopolitanism. New York, NY: Pal-grave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-137-35254-5.

Pawlicki, Marek (2013). Between Illusionism andAnti-Illusionism: Self-Reexivity in the Chosen Nov-els of J. M. Coetzee. Newcastle Upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-443-85304-0.

Zimbler, Jarad (2014). J. M. Coetzee and the Politicsof Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-107-04625-2.

Attwell, David (2015). J. M. Coetzee and the Life ofWriting: Face to Face with Time. New York, NY:Viking Books. ISBN 978-0-525-42961-6.

7.1 Collected essays

The Writings of J. M. Coetzee, ed. Michael ValdezMoses (Durham, NC: DukeUniversity Press, 1994).

Critical perspectives on J. M. Coetzee, eds. GrahamHuggan and Stephen Watson (New York, NY: St.Martins Press, 1996).

Critical Essays on J. M. Coetzee, ed. Sue Kossew(New York, NY: G.K. Hall, 1998).

A Universe of (Hi)stories: Essays on J. M. Coet-zee, ed. Liliana Sikorska (Frankfurt am Main; NewYork, NY: Peter Lang, 2006).

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellec-tual, ed. Jane Poyner (Athens, OH: Ohio UniversityPress, 2006).

J. M. Coetzee: Critical Perspectives, ed. Kailash C.Baral (New Delhi: Pencraft, 2008).

J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory, eds. EllekeBoehmer, Katy Iddiols, and Robert Eaglestone(London; New York, NY: Continuum, 2009).

J. M. Coetzees Austerities, eds. Graham Bradshawand Michael Neill (Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ash-gate, 2010).

J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectiveson Literature, eds. Anton Leist and Peter Singer(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2010).

A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee, eds.Tim Mehigan (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).

Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authorityof Contemporary ction, eds. Chris Danta, SueKossew, and Julian Murphet (New York, NY: Rout-ledge, 2011).

Approaches to Teaching Coetzees 'Disgrace' andOther Works, eds. Laura Wright, Jane Poyner, andElleke Boehmer (The Modern Language Associa-tion of America, 2014).

7.2 Interviews Speaking J. M. Coetzee, Stephen Watson, Speakvol. 1, no. 3 (1978): 2124.

An Interview with J. M. Coetzee, Tony Morphet,Social Dynamics vol. 10, no. 1 (1984): 62-65.

An Interview with J. M. Coetzee, Jean Svry,Commonwealth: Essays and Studies vol. 9, no. 1(1986): 17.

Two Interviews with J. M. Coetzee, 1983 and1987, Tony Morphet, TriQuarterly 69 (Spring-Summer 1987): 45464.

On the Question of Autobiography: Interview withJ.M. Coetzee, David Attwell, CurrentWriting: Textand Reception in South Africa vol. 3, no. 1 (1991):117122.

An Interview with J. M. Coetzee, Richard Begam,Contemporary Literature vol. 33, no. 3 (1992):419431.

An Interview with J. M. Coetzee,World LiteratureToday vol. 70, no. 1 (1996): 107110.

Voice and Trajectory: An Interview with J. M. Co-etzee, Joanna Scott, Salmagundi 114/115 (1997):82102.

The Sympathetic Imagination: A Conversationwith J. M. Coetzee, Eleanor Wachtel, Brick: A Lit-erary Journal 56 (2001): 3747.

A Rare Interview with a Literary Giant, MichaelShechner, Bualo News Oct. 13, 2002, page E1.

An Exclusive Interview with J. M. Coetzee, DavidAttwell, Dagens Nyheter, Dec. 8, 2003

Animals, Humans, and Cruelty, Djurens Rtt,2004

7 An Interview with J. M. Coetzee, Erik Grayson,Stirrings Still vol. 3, no. 1 (2006): 47.

All Autobiography is Autre-biography, DavidAtwell, in Selves in Question: Interviews on SouthAfrican Auto/biography, ed. Judith Ltge Coullieet al. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,2006), 213218.

The Canadian Seal Hunt: An Interview with J. M.Coetzee, The Humane Society of the United States,Mar. 14, 2008

Nevertheless, My Sympathies are with the Kara-mazovs: An Email Correspondence: May Decem-ber 2008, Arabella Kurtz, Salmagundi 166/167(Spring 2010): 3972.

An Interview with J. M. Coetzee, LawrenceRainey, David Attwell, and Benjamin Madden,Modernism/Modernity vol. 18, no. 4 (2011): 847853.

"... A Certain Age ..., Lore Watterson, ClassicfeelDec/Jan (201213): 2229.

7.3 Authorised biography J. C. Kannemeyer, J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing(Jonathan Ball, 2012). ISBN 978-1-86842-495-5

8 See also List of African writers

9 References[1] Sangster, Catherine (1 October 2009). How to Say:

JM Coetzee and other Booker authors. BBC News.Retrieved 26 November 2012.: The rst syllable ispronounced kuut (uu as in book); debate rages aboutthe pronunciation of the ee at the end. Many SouthAfricans, whether Afrikaans speakers or not, pronouncethis as a diphthong EE-uh, as in the word idea. In-deed, kuut-SEE-uh was the Units original recommenda-tion in the early 1980s, based on the advice of the SouthAfrican Broadcasting Corporation and his London pub-lisher, Secker and Warburg. However, that vowel can alsobe pronounced as a monophthong (kuut-SEE), especiallyby those from the south of the country, and this is the pro-nunciation that the author uses and prefers the BBC to usetoo.

[2] Coetzee honoured in Poznan. Polskie Radio. 10 July2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014. His maternal great-grandfather was born in Czarnylas, Poland

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Videos

Video: J. M. Coetzee speaking at The University ofTexas, Austin

Video: J. M. Coetzee speaking at the Jaipur Litera-ture Festival

Video: David Malouf with J.M. Coetzee, AdelaideWriters Week/You can hear Coetzee introducinghimself at the beginning of his speech

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