J.M. Coetzee in Warsaw, 2006. Photograph by Mariusz Kubik, GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 Source: Britannica (accessed: October 18, 2021)
John Maxwell Coetzee
, b. 1940
John Maxwell Coetzee was born of Afrikaner parents on February 9, 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa. He attended St. Joseph’s College, a Catholic School in Cape Town, where he received his Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and Mathematics at the Universality of Cape Town in 1960 and 1961 respectively. He relocated to the United Kingdom where he was adjunct lecturer, and later enrolled on the Fulbright program in the University of Texas. He was arrested in 1970 for protest against the war in Vietnam and later returned to South Africa to teach Literatures in English at the University of Cape Town, where he was promoted to the rank of Professor of Literary Studies in 1983. He retired to Australia in 2002 and was made an honorary research fellow in the Department of English at the University of Adelaide. He is an essayist, a novelist, literary critic, linguist, translator and professor. He received the Irish Times International Fiction Prize in 1995, the Booker Prize in 1999, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
Bio prepared by Divine Che Neba, nebankiwang@yahoo.com and Didymus Duanla Tsangue University of Yaoundé 1, diddytsangue@yahoo.ca
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