The first ever novel I read by JM Coetzee was courtesy of my Languages and Literature degree and I must say I am thankful to the person that makes my prescribed reading list because once again I discovered a brilliant South African Author. Although he now lives in Australia, Coetzee manages to tell honestly South African stories and this I attribute to this land being his birth place.
Born John Maxwell Coetzee to School teacher mother and Lawyer father, JM Coetzee grew up in an English speaking Afrikaans home and I think this was a great basis and beginning for a young man’s love affair with the English language and the lustrous writing career that came as a result.
Coetzee’s work is critically acclaimed and he has received numerous literary awards including winning the booker prize, twice as well as the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature.
Some of his greatest novels include the above mentioned “Disgrace”, “In The Heart of The Country”, “Elizabeth Castello” and “Foe” amongst many others.
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