J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and a second time for Disgrace in 1999. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, and a multiplicity of other prizes such as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Faber memorial Award, and the Commonwealth Literary Award. His most recent works are Slow Man (2005) and Diary of a Bad Year (2007). Coetzee was born and grew up in Cape Town. He later worked and taught in London, Texas, and New York before returning to lecture at Cape Town University. Upon retirement he moved to Adelaide, where he now makes his home as an Australian citizen. As well as his thirteen works of fiction and autobiography, J. M. Coetzee is the author of numerous books of literary criticism, and has published translations from Dutch and Afrikaans.

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