About J M Coetzee
JM Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice.
Series
Scenes from Provincial Life
1. Boyhood (1997)
2. Youth (2002)
3. Summertime (2009)
Scenes from Provincial Life (omnibus) (2011)
1. Boyhood (1997)
2. Youth (2002)
3. Summertime (2009)
Scenes from Provincial Life (omnibus) (2011)
Novels
In the Heart of the Country (1977)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
The Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
Foe (1986)
Age of Iron (1990)
The Master of Petersburg (1994)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Disgrace (1999)
Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003)
Slow Man (2005)
Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
The Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
Foe (1986)
Age of Iron (1990)
The Master of Petersburg (1994)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Disgrace (1999)
Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003)
Slow Man (2005)
Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
Collections
Anthologies edited
A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader (1986) (with André Brink)
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands (2003)
African Pens 2011: New Writing from Southern Africa (Sapen) (2011)
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands (2003)
African Pens 2011: New Writing from Southern Africa (Sapen) (2011)
Non fiction
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992)
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996)
The Novel in Africa (1999)
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays (2001)
The Nobel Lecture in Literature 2003 (2004)
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 (2007)
Here and Now: Letters (2013) (with Paul Auster)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992)
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996)
The Novel in Africa (1999)
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays (2001)
The Nobel Lecture in Literature 2003 (2004)
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 (2007)
Here and Now: Letters (2013) (with Paul Auster)
Awards
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Books about J M Coetzee
J M Coetzee recommends
 The Tanners (1907) Robert Walser "Unforgettable, heart-rending." |  Beyond Sleep (1966) W F Hermans "A comedy of worldly disengagement trembling on the edge of tragedy, all the more hilarious for being related in Hermans' best poker-faced mariner." |  A Blessing on the Moon (1997) Joseph Skibell "A work of striking originality." |
 Evolution (1998) Ken Barris "... a gripping story skilfully handled by an award winning writer..." |  The Gabriel Club (1998) Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya "An impressive debut, serious and passionate." |  Half a Life (2001) V S Naipaul "Naipaul is a master of English prose and the prose of Half a Life is as clean and cold as a knife." |
 The Wedding (2001) Imraan Coovadia "A tender love story rendered in prose of dazzling comic wizardry." |  The City of Sealions (2002) Eva Sallis "A rich book - a lyrical account of a girl's growth and self-discovery, and at the same time a deeply sympathetic exploration of Muslim culture." |  The Man of Feeling (2003) Javier Mariás "Javier Mariás is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." |
 The Apothecary's Daughter (2004) Patricia Schonstein "A richly romantic tale of sexual awakening and betrayal." |  Crossways (2004) Sheila Kohler "There is a territory - fictional and psychological - that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. I am full of admiration." |  Inside (2006) Kenneth J Harvey "An extravagantly haunted imagination." |
 In the Country of Men (2006) Hisham Matar "A poignant story of a child exposed too early to the brutalities of Libyan politics." |  The Rowing Lesson (2007) Anne Landsman "An elegy for a lost father and a beloved world on the point of disappearing. Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion." |  The Twin (2008) Gerbrand Bakker "A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humour." |
 For the Sake of Silence (2008) Michael Cawood Green "A work of history cum fiction that will grip and sometimes amaze the reader." |  God's Own Country (2008) Ross Raisin "Ross Raisin’s story of how a disturbed but basically well-intentioned rural youngster turns into a malevolent sociopath is both chilling in its effect and convincing in its execution." |  The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008) Steven Galloway "A gripping story of Sarajevo under siege." |
 The One That Got Away (2008) Zoë Wicomb "Zoë Wicomb's new stories combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth." |  The Vera Wright Trilogy (2010) (Vera Wright Trilogy) Elizabeth Jolley "The Vera Wright Trilogy stands out as the most ambitious and most accomplished work in Elizabeth Jolley's oeuvre." |  Inside (2012) Alix Ohlin "A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry." |
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