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2003
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John Maxwell Coetzee, born John Michael Coetzee (Cape Town, February 9, 1940) is a South African writer. He later changed his baptismal name. On October 2, 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the second South African writer to receive this honor. The prize was presented to him on December 10 in Stockholm. Lifecycle: The ancestry of Coetzee mainly consists of 17th century Dutch people who emigrated to South Africa. He also has some Polish ancestors. He studied Mathematics and English at the University of Cape Town. In the early 1960s he moved to Great Britain, where he worked as a computer programmer. His experiences were later incorporated into the book Youth (2002). He then studied literature at the University of Texas at Austin and then taught English at the University of Buffalo (New York State University) until 1983. In 1984 Coetzee returned to South Africa. He became a professor of English at the University of Cape Town and retired there in 2002. He then moved to Adelaide (Australia), where he was appointed honorary researcher at the Faculty of English at the University of Adelaide. Since 2002 he has also been a professor at the University of Chicago. On March 6, 2006 he became an Australian citizen. Coetzee has written several novels, in which the theme of the loner who has to survive within a group keeps returning. He also worked as a translator and has published a number of reviews. In 1976, Coetzee translated Marcellus Emants's novel A Bequeathed Confession into English. In addition, Coetzee regularly gives his opinion on animal rights in his books and in the media. Coetzee was also a fierce opponent of apartheid. He was the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice, in 1983 for The Life and Times of Michael K and in 1999 for Disgrace. Because he wanted to avoid the publicity about the prices, he did not come to collect the prices. Elizabeth Costello, a fictional Australian writer, serves as his alter-ego in three of his novels: Elizabeth Costello (2003), The Lives of Animals (1999) and Slow Man (2005). To work: Dusklands (1974) In the Heart of the Country (1977) Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) The Life and Times of Michael K (1983) Foe (1986) White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988) Age of Iron (1990) Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992) The Master of Petersburg (1994) Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996) Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1998) The Life of Animals (1999) Disgrace (1999) Youth (2002) Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999 (2002) Elizabeth Costello (2003) Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands (2003) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) Translations: World & Walk of Michael K (1984) In the Heart of the Country (1985) Twilight Lands (1986) Iron Age (1990 - later released under the title Iron Age) The Master from Petersburg (1994) Boyhood (1997) In Disgrace (1999) Animal Life (2001) Portrait of a Young Man (2002) Waiting for the Barbarians (2002) Elizabeth Costello (2003) Mr. Foe and Mrs. Barton (2003) He and His Husband (With an answer from Arnon Grunberg - 2004) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) What is a classic novel? (essay - 2007) When a Woman Gets Older (2008) In 2003 he published the bilingual anthology Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands at Princeton University Press, with a selection from the work of successively Gerrit Achterberg, Sybren Polet, Hugo Claus, Cees Nooteboom, Hans Faverey and Rutger Kopland.

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