J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) was a white South African novelist whose writings reflected strong anti-imperialist sentiments. John M. Coetzee, the son of a sheep farmer, was born in Cape Town in 1940 and was educated in both South Africa and the United...

J. M. Coetzee published his first novel, Dusklands , in 1974 and since then has become one of South Africa's leading writers. As the many literary awards he has received testify, however, his reputation is not only local but international. John Maxwell...

"When some men suffer unjustly . . . it is the fate of those who witness their suffering to suffer the shame of it." This observation by the Magistrate in J. M. Coetzee's 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, may well serve as an epigraph to the body...

Coetzee, John Maxwell: Desgracia. Mondadori, 2002, 271 pp. Retratar a John Maxwell Coetzee (Ciudad del Cabo, 1940) supone un esfuerzo mínimo, de resultados casi transparentes. Pocos trazos robados al anonimato contumaz en que persevera, logran crear una especie de fotografía en blanco...

Leading Leaders If John C. Maxwell is right, the next phase in management style will be team leadership. So certain is he of the demise of the one-person leadership paradigm that he has staked his next series of releases on the concept...

In the following essay, Lenta discusses Coetzee's life, career, awards and recognition, and overall body of work, while also examining the era in which Coetzee wrote and the critical reception of his works.

In the following essay, Barnard examines the significance of place in Coetzee's novels and critical essays, arguing that his settings are not dystopian, as has been suggested by some critics, but rather "atopian," embodying a feeling of constant displacement.

In the following essay, Marais argues "that J. M. Coetzee's novella 'The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee' … suggests as much about the ethnocentricity of early South African travel writing" as does early colonial literature.