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    J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, J. M. Coetzee is the author of more than twenty books, including The Pole; Waiting for the Barbarians; Life and Times of Michael K, for which Coetzee was awarded the Booker Prize; Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life; and several essay collections. With his novel Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

    J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, J. M. Coetzee is the author of more than twenty books, including The Pole; Waiting for the Barbarians; Life and Times of Michael K, for which Coetzee was awarded the Booker Prize; Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life; and several essay collections. With his novel Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Books by J. M. Coetzee

    • The Pole: A Novel

      J. M. Coetzee

      Hardback, 2023

      One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall"

      From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human...

    • The Pole: A Novel

      J. M. Coetzee

      E Book

      One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall"

      From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human...

    • The Pole: A Novel

      J. M. Coetzee

      Paperback, 2024

      One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall"

      From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human...

    • Speaking in Tongues

      J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos

      Hardback, 2025

    • Speaking in Tongues

      J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos

      E Book

    • Speaking in Tongues

      J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos

      Paperback, 2026

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