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 ...

Last December J.M. Coetzee, the South African-turned-Australian author, returned to Cape Town to give a reading. He began by thanking his former colleagues at the university where he had taught; he ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s last novel, “Elizabeth Costello,” was an unfulfilling hodgepodge of tedious interviews, lectures and essays. He follows it with a series of totally satisfying, tricky ...

I don’t read J.M. Coetzee for pleasure. To be fair, I’m not sure anyone does. The 2003 Nobel laureate writes from his head more than his heart, framing novels that are philosophical and austere, books ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s latest work is the third and presumably final novel in a series that freely adapts the Nativity story, relocating it to an unnamed, Spanish-speaking country that may or ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee begins his latest novel with an epigraph from the second part of “Don Quixote,” published in 1615, 10 years after the first part. Coetzee does not bother to translate ...

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 ...

South African-Australian author J.M. Coetzee is vying for his third Man Booker Prize for Fiction with his latest novel The Schooldays of Jesus, a sequel to 2013's The Childhood of Jesus. Schooldays of ...

Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee were among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. Byatt's Edwardian family saga "The Children's Book" and Coetzee's ...

In 2008, a British clinical psychologist, Arabella Kurtz, invited Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee to participate in a public discussion about literature and psychoanalysis. The notoriously ...

In 1974, J.M. Coetzee applied to South Africa’s Ministry of the Interior to become an official state censor of literature. A few months later, he was informed that his application had been turned down ...