John M. Coetzee

John M. Coetzee, novelist, essayist, linguist and translator is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Author of  The Life & Times of Michael K. (1984) for which he was awarded the Booker Prize. He also published three autobiographical works, Boyhood (1997), Youth (2000) and Summertime (2009), collected as Scenes from Provincial Life (2011). He won his second Booker Prize in 1999 for Disgrace. Other works include Foe (1986), The Master of Petersburg (1994), and The Childhood of Jesus (2013). He has also published several essay collections including White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1990), Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996), Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, and Inner Workings: Literary Essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.