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J.M. Coetzee


Born
in Cape Town, South Africa
February 09, 1940

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Walser, Daniel De ...more


John Maxwell Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa. He became an Australian citizen in 2006 after relocating there in 2002. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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An open letter to President Erdoğan from 38 Nobel laureates | JM Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Svetlana Alexievich and others

Until Turkey frees detained writers and returns to the rule of law, it cannot claim to be a member of the free world

Dear President Erdoğan,

We wish to draw your attention to the damage being done to the Republic of Turkey, to its reputation and the dignity and wellbeing of its citizens, through what leading authorities on freedom of expression deem to be the unlawful detention and wrongful convicti

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Average rating: 3.77 · 301,537 ratings · 25,041 reviews · 172 distinct works • Similar authors
Disgrace
3.85 avg rating — 111,706 ratings — published 1999 — 238 editions
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Waiting for the Barbarians
3.93 avg rating — 33,905 ratings — published 1980 — 167 editions
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Life & Times of Michael K
3.87 avg rating — 20,203 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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3.48 avg rating — 9,766 ratings — published 2003 — 92 editions
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Slow Man
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Youth
3.78 avg rating — 7,990 ratings — published 2002 — 83 editions
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Summertime
3.78 avg rating — 6,680 ratings — published 2009 — 69 editions
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The Childhood of Jesus
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“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee
tags: courage, heroism, live-life
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“When all else fails, philosophize.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
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“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
― J.M. Coetzee
tags: happiness
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