Thursday June 19th, JM Coetzee

7.30pm, Lecture Theatre 1, UEA, Norwich. £5 (no concessions).

"It is in exploring weakness and defeat that Coetzee captures the divine spark in man.” Swedish Academy

New Writing Worlds is honoured to welcome the Nobel prize winner J.M. Coetzee to Norwich to read from his work at the UEA.

One of the world’s greatest living writers, J.M. Coetzee is a South African novelist, essayist and translator whose portrayal of South Africa is designed to raise questions not only about his homeland, but of all of us: “He has an amazing human passion that is very clear even when he's describing the worst things people do to one another. He's asking what are the conditions of our salvation and damnation." Jonathan Lear

Coetzee’s work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello and, most recently, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is also the only author to win the Booker Prize twice.

We recommend that you book tickets early for this event.

Booking Information: Tickets available in advance from the Box Office, sited in the Union House, UEA (10am-5pm week days in term time, 12 noon – 3pm vacations) or by telephone on 01603 508050 or by post from Box Office, Union House, UEA, Norwich NR4 7TJ (cheques payable to SUS (E.A.) Ltd. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope).

Access: UEA Lecture Theatre 1 is accessible to wheelchair users. Please contact NWP on 01603 877177 if you have access requirements you would like to discuss further.