Biography
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
Coetzee moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2006. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is patron of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His most recently published book is The Pole and Other Stories (2023).
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GenderMale
Birthday1940-02-09 (84 years old)
Religionatheism
CitizenshipsAustralia, South Africa
AwardsChevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Prix Femina étranger, Order of Mapungubwe, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Gold Order of Mapungubwe, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Jerusalem Prize, Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature
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