J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee was born on 9 February 1940 in Cape Town. He took degrees in English and mathematics at the university of his home city, lived in England from 1962 to 1965, where he worked as a computer programmer, then defended at the University of Texas, in the late 1960s, a thesis on the prose of Samuel Beckett. An assistant professor at Buffalo, he had to return home in 1971, having failed to obtain the right to stay in the United States, and taught in Cape Town until his retirement. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, he has lived since 2002 in Adelaide, Australia.

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