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Life & Times of Michael K by John Maxwell Coetzee

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Author Biography

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Biography of J. M. Coetzee
1368 words, approx. 4.6 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 was educated in both South Africa and the United State...
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Biography of J(ohn) M(ichael) Coetzee
13481 words, approx. 44.9 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 reputation is not only local but international. John Maxwell C...
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Biography of J. M. Coetzee
6025 words, approx. 20.1 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 Barbarians, may well serve as an epigraph to the body o...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Life & Times of Michael K Information
635 words, approx. 2 pages
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2003. The book itself won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a hare-lipped, simple gardener Michael K, who makes an...


News and Journals
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The Crisis
The Life and Times of Blanche K. Bruce
07/01/2006: 858 words, approx. 3 pages
The Life and Times of Blanche K. Bruce The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty By Lawrence Otis Graham (HarperCollins, $26.95) "Dynasty" conjures images of the Roosevelts, the Rockefellers and the Kcnnedys. Great American family dynasties transfer...
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
Smurfit says it's time to quit and 'smell the roses'; Home: His 30,000 sq ft property backs on to the exclusive K Club High life: Emma and Michael arrive for dinner at Le Moulin, France.
06/25/2007: 465 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: PETRINA VOUSDEN SOME might think that Michael Smurfit always had the perfect life -jetting around the world and dating beautiful women while owning one ofIreland's most exclusive golf courses and a string of Irish thoroughbredhorses. But the 70-year-old multimillionaire claims he's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mark D. Hawthorne
5,190 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Hawthorne examines the meaning of Michael K's silence in Life and Times of Michael K.
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Interview by J. M. Coetzee with Tony Morphet
2,611 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following excerpted interview, which was conducted in 1983, Coetzee discusses his novel Life and Times of Michael K.


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