Even more uncompromising than usual, this latest novel by Coetzee (his first since 1999's Booker Prize–winning Disgrace) blurs the bounds of fiction and nonfiction while furthering the author's ...

The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to John Maxwell Coetzee, a white South African novelist and essayist whose work chronicles the inner history of his country’s transformation from ...

Men and their desires. Do we really need more on the subject? It is ground that has been plowed so often, by Roth, Updike, and others who came of age during the sexual revolution and its aftermath.

With those essentials so breezily established, Coetzee moves on to weightier matters: Beatriz’s soul. Walczykiewicz, the Pole in titular question, is a pianist in his 70s, famous for his ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- J.M. Coetzee, a faculty member in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo from 1968-71 and Butler Professor of English at UB in 1984 and 1986, has been named winner of ...

Although Nobel Prize season tends to direct people’s attention toward the University of Chicago’s economics department and its legacy, the return of the Nobel laureate and former University professor ...

John Coetzee is both Honorary Graduate and holds an Honorary Research affiliation at the University that employs me, but there is no direct benefit to either of us, or to the University, of a ...

It's best left to his therapist (if he has one) to determine whether J.M. Coetzee is a hopeless narcissist or is blessed with an admirable sense of self-reflection. St. Louis has been through both ...

The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist is here finally and South African J.M. Coetzee is the only African on the list. The Nobel Laureate made the longlist with The Schooldays of Jesus, sequel to his 2013 ...

Berlinde De Bruyckere's work prompts the viewer to respond. That is why it has a particular appeal for writers of literature: they are fascinated by the compositions of distorted parts of humans and ...

The Death of Jesus. By J.M. Coetzee. Harvill Secker; 208 pages; £18.99. To be published in America by Viking in May. WHEN THE South African government condemned J.M. Coetzee’s portrayal of rape in ...