J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940) · South Africa · Writers
J. M. Coetzee is read about 893 times a day, in 96 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 393 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He's won the Nobel and the Booker twice, but the real pull is the coldness - Coetzee writes like a surgeon operating without anesthetic, and readers return for that unflinching precision.
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About this person
Born 9 February 1940 in South Africa, John Maxwell Coetzee built a career as novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator marked by relentless moral inquiry and formal control. The Booker came twice, the CNA Literary Award three times, then the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 - a shelf of honors that made him one of the most decorated writers in English. In 2002 he moved to Australia, became a citizen in 2006, and settled in Adelaide. He serves as patron of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His most recent work, The Pole and Other Stories, appeared in 2023.
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