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 ...

Each of the 21 essays included in Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 is named for the author whose works it examines, making the collection’s table of contents read like a syllabus. In the ...

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 ...

Coetzee, in the city from which he had emerged, a city that he’d intermittently written about—without revealing much of it—and then left, in 2002. The 86-year-old author’s legacy, I’d been told, ...

The South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...

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 ...

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.

John Coetzee, arguably one of the best novelists working in English today, is such a morally courageous and linguistically precise writer that any new work from him is an event. In fiction such as ...

J. M. Coetzee, one of the most critically acclaimed authors of his era, will visit the University of Chicago for an Oct. 9 talk—the former faculty member’s first return to campus since receiving the ...

The title of South African author J.M. Coetzee's exceptional Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, is the first cue to the spare, devastating economy of his prose. Over the course of the book, the ...

Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee received the inaugural Mahindra Award for Global Distinction in the Humanities in a Sanders Theatre ceremony Wednesday afternoon. Bookended by Bach solos by ...

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 ...