John Maxwell Coetzee Summary

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Biographies (3)

1,370 words, approx. 5 pages
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 w... Read more
5,992 words, approx. 20 pages
"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 B... Read more
13,405 words, approx. 45 pages
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 reputati... Read more