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	Coetzee
		John Maxwell Coetzee, better known as J.M. Coetzee, was born in South Africa on February 9th, 1940.
		Coetzee also writes in his biography and his novels about the laws that divided himself and others into racial categories that served to further alienate him.
		Coetzee’s aim is not to provide solutions, but to highlight problems and have the reader form their own conclusions.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Coetzee.html (1003 words)

	J. M. Coetzee Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African author.
		He was born in Cape Town as John Michael Coetzee (he later changed his middle name), and his formative years were spent between that port city and the Western Cape town of Worcester.
		He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize on two occasions: for The Life and Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999; because of a desire to avoid the associated publicity he did not appear to collect his prizes.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/j/j_/j__m__coetzee.html (322 words)

	The Hindu : Novelist as critic
		Coetzee calls into question such simplistic notions generally held about the classic that it is timeless and that it speaks unproblematically to all generations across all boundaries.
		Coetzee juxtaposes the two versions of Kafka in order to examine which of the two has the ease and grace of the original.
		Coetzee's prose is lucid; his observations are marked by admirable candour and judgement supported by textual evidence.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/lr/2002/01/06/stories/2002010600110100.htm (1196 words)

	MDO - Author wins second elite British award - 11/04/1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Coetzee won the 1999 Booker Prize on Oct. 25 for his latest book, "Disgrace." His "Life and Times of Michael K." had already earned him the prize in 1983; Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice.
		Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940 and grew up on an isolated farm in the semi-desert of Karroo.
		Coetzee's first novel was followed by the publication of several scholarly essays, but not until his second novel, "In the Heart of the Country," did Coetzee clearly establish his reputation as a writer.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1999/11/04/news/new7 (412 words)

	Postcolonialism Study Guide: Representative Authors
		John Michael Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940, in South Africa.
		Coetzee took a bachelor of arts degree in 1960 from the University of Cape Town and a master of fine arts degree in 1963.
		Coetzee is currently professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-postcolonialism/repauth.html (181 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Coetzee could not immediately be tracked down by the Swedish Academy to be told he had won the prize.
		Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later earned a doctorate in literature from the University of Texas at Austin but was forced to return to South Africa when his application for a green card work permit was rejected.
		Coetzee himself gave no real explanation for the decision but in an e-mail interview with a former student, he once said he looked forward to getting out of the big city.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031003/asp/atleisure/story_2425290.asp (740 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Coetzee, the inventive, austere, and penetrating South African novelist and critic, has published, in his early sixties, the second installment of what seems to be an ongoing memoirist project: "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II" (Viking; $22.95).
		Coetzee portrays himself as a lonely dunce at love, mooning over exotic movie stars like Monica Vitti and Anna Karina, yet by his own desultory count he was a considerable seducer.
		Coetzee writes of "London, the city on whose grim cogs he is being broken," while recording impressive survival skills.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?020715crbo_books (1427 words)

	COETZEE, J. M.. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Educated at the Univ. of Cape Town (M.A. 1963) and the Univ. of Texas (Ph.D. 1969), he has taught at Cape Town since 1971.
		Several of Coetzee’s novels are noted for their eloquent protest against political and social conditions in South Africa, particularly the suffering caused by imperialism, apartheid, and postapartheid violence, as well as for their technical virtuosity.
		His critically acclaimed writings include From the Heart of the Country (1977), Waiting for the Barbarians (1982), the Booker Prize–winning novels The Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999), Foe (1986), and the memoir Boyhood (1997).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/co/Coetzee.html (122 words)

	Coetzee, J. M. Criticism and Essays
		Michael K is a slow-witted outcast who searches with his mother for a home during a turbulent period of an unnamed country's civil war.
		Some critics considered this to be Coetzee's most brutal and pessimistic novel because of its detailed explication of the viciousness of apartheid and of the physical deterioration of disease; however, several note that Elizabeth's sentimental musings on childhood and maternal love signify rebirth and human continuity.
		Coetzee is widely considered one of the most important contemporary writers exploring the effects of Western imperialism on native culture.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/coetzee-j-m (948 words)

	Salon Books \| "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the first of the many comparisons of human and animal existence in "Disgrace." Coetzee has always situated his characters in extreme situations that compel them to explore what it means to be human, and before this novel is over, David must endure both psychological abasement and physical torment.
		Coetzee seems to be attacking the New Age tyranny of therapeutic discourse here, but David's own language doesn't seem much more trustworthy.
		Coetzee wins Booker Prize 1999 is the year of the bleak horse.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/05/coetzee (1225 words)

	Nobel: Literature: John Maxwell Coetzee
		John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced "coot-SEE-uh") is a South African author.
		He was born on 9 February 1940, in Cape Town, as John Michael Coetzee (he later changed his middle name), and his formative years were spent between that city and the Western Cape town of Worcester.
		He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize on two occasions: for The Life and Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999; because of a desire to avoid the associated publicity, however, he did not appear to collect his prizes.
	www.nobelpreis.org /korean/Literatur/coetzee.htm (275 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - J. M. Coetzee
		John Michael Coetzee was born in South Africa in 1940, the son of an attorney and a school teacher.
		In the books that followed, Coetzee started to set his novels in geographical and political situations that implied South Africa, as he wanted to create geographical anonymity and avoid being labeled a “political writer.” Indeed, the exposed protagonist in an unspecified landscape is a structure Coetzee utilizes in most of his fiction.
		Coetzee went on to win the Booker Prize twice, for Life and Times of Michael K and most recently for his 1999 novel, Disgrace.
	www.lectures.org /coetzee.html (633 words)

	The outsider - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		J.M. Coetzee is a teller of mysterious and universal tales in the tradition of Kafka.
		Like all his books, "Barbarians" can be read in a single evening, but its pungent evocation of a menacing yet beautiful country that both is and is not South Africa, its exploration of what it means to be human in the face of monstrous cruelty, stays with you for a lifetime.
		With "Disgrace," Coetzee won his second Booker Prize and, in relating the fate of a scholar of Romantic poetry cast out of his job after a misbegotten affair with a student, tells us something we all suspect and fear -- that political change can do almost nothing to eliminate human misery.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2003/10/03/coetzee/index_np.html (686 words)

	Amazon.ca: Foe: Books: J. M. (John Michael) Coetzee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Coetzee approaches the story of Crusoe as one of dubious genealogy - in "Foe" it is related by the opportunistic castaway Susan Barlow, a woman who found herself stranded on the island kingdom of a man named Cruso and his mute servant Friday.
		Coetzee is a published critic of English literature, and this novel seems to be his Shelob, a creature set down to trouble a weary age (probably not quoting my Tolkien just right).
		It's lighter than Coetzee's Master of Petersburg, but it is a similar style to that book and evocative of the same emotions.
	www.amazon.ca /Foe-M-John-Michael-Coetzee/dp/202010296X (1601 words)

	Cape Town born Coetzee wins nobel prize
		The announcement of JM Coetzee as this year Nobel Prize for Literature winner was greeted with excitement all over the world, and in South Africa, especially at the University of Cape Town where he taught.
		JM Coetzee, born and bred in Cape Town, and former English professor at the University of Cape Town, is now resident in Australia and teaching at Chicago University.
		In 1983 he received his first Booker Prize for the novel The Life and Times of Michael K which although it has comparisons to South Africa is set in a fictional country in the midst of a civil war.
	www.come2capetown.com /newsletter/oct/the_city.htm (459 words)

	Biographies of Famous South Africans - Chris Barnard
		John Michael Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
		He won the premier British award, the Booker Prize, for the first time in 1983, for the "Life and Times of Michael K." In the same year he was appointed Professor of General Literature at the University of Cape Town.
		On October 25th 1999, Coetzee became the first author to win the prestigious Booker award twice in its 31-year history, for his current novel, "Disgrace".
	zar.co.za /coetzee.htm (260 words)

	JM Coetzee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The reclusive novelist JM Coetzee won the Nobel prize for literature.
		A list of links to articles printed in the NY Times related to Coetzee; two were written by our author, the rest are about his works.
		“Coetzee and the disgrace of liberation" An article by S. Prasannarajan on the topic of our author and the relationship between writers and race.
	php.educanet2.ch /enggybn/html/jm_coetzee.html (486 words)

	J. M. Coetzee — Infoplease.com
		Educated at the Univ. of Cape Town (M.A. 1963) and the Univ. of Texas (Ph.D. 1969), he taught in the United States and returned home (1983) to become a professor of English literature at Cape Town.
		Several of Coetzee's novels are noted for their eloquent protest against political and social conditions in South Africa, particularly the suffering caused by imperialism, apartheid, and postapartheid violence.
		Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: ethics, truth-telling, and self-deception.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0812783.html (304 words)

	Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues: Text Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The most obvious and direct dialogue between Gordimer and Coetzee was when both appeared on the same platform at an event hosted by the Congress of South African Writers.
		Salmon Rushdie was supposed to speak with Coetzee, but the infamous fatwa had been issued a few weeks before and COSAW decided to ask Rushdie not to come, as they could not guarantee his safety.
		Coetzee spoke first, stating two basic points: that COSAW had cut a deal with the Muslim fundamentalists as regards to the Rushdie thing, and that "Fundamentalism abhors the free play of signs, the endlessness of writing….
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/waitingforthebarbarians.html (1708 words)

	Dr John C Maxwell Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dr John C Maxwell is probably one of the most important and influential teachers on leadership in the world.
		He is the founder and chairman of The INJOY Group, a coterie of organizations that he created to spread the leadership message around the world.
		His father was a pastor in the Wesleyan Church and very early in his life, John knew he was to pursue the same calling.
	www.kwikmind.com /maxwell/1/John-Coetzee-Maxwell.htm (399 words)

	The New Yorker : archive : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He does not like this new, ugly self, he wants to be drawn out of it, but that is something he cannot do by himself.” His brilliance at school gives him little pleasure; it just breaks life into a relentless series of tests.
		Coetzee writes of “London, the city on whose grim cogs he is being broken,” while recording impressive survival skills.
		Must he become miserable again in order to write?” Yet the suspense attached to this stalled life is real, at least for any reader who has himself sought to find his or her voice and material amid the crosscurrents of late modernism.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content/?031006fr_archive04 (1454 words)

	boekverslag Life and times of Michael K. door John Michael Coetzee \| scholieren.com
		Michael K, blemished by a hare lip, was taken out of school because of his disfigurement and because his mind was not quick.
		After a short trial he was committed to the protection of Huis Norenius in Faure.He spent at the expense of the state the rest of his childhood in the company of other variously afflicted and unfortunate children.
		One night in December, woken by excited shouts, the people of the camp stumbled from their beds to behold on the horizon in the direction of Prince Albert a vast and beautiful orange blossom unfolding itself against the murk of the sky.
	www.scholieren.com /boekverslagen/13804 (1147 words)

	Nobel award: John Maxwell Coetzee (Off topic)
		John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa.
		In 1999 Coetzee became the first author to be twice awarded the Booker Prize, now for his novel Disgrace, in which the plot, as in In the Heart of the Country, 1977, mainly takes place on a remote farm in South Africa.
		Coetzee’s literary criticism has been published in essay form in journals such as Comparative Literature, the Journal of Literary Semantics and the Journal of Modern Literature and collections have been issued as White Writing, 1998, Doubling the Point, 1992, Giving Offense : Essays on Censorship, 1996, and Stranger Shores : Essays 1986 –1999, 2001.
	www.proz.com /post/93697 (694 words)

	Amazon.fr : Disgrâce: Livres: John Michael Coetzee,Catherine Lauga du Plessis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Michael K, sa vie, son temps de John Maxwell Coetzee
		Avec Scènes de la vie d'un jeune garçon, son précédent roman, John Michael Coetzee mêlait son histoire personnelle à celle de l'Afrique du Sud des années d'après-guerre.
		La volonté de JM Coetzee semble d'avoir voulu traduire la virulence croissante dans l'Afrique du Sud de l'après-apertheid, les entités différentes, des divergences nourries des rancoeurs.
	www.amazon.fr /Disgr%C3%A2ce-John-Michael-Coetzee/dp/2020387557 (1186 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Disgrace \| J. M. Coetzee
		It is here, Coetzee seems to suggest, that Lurie gains a redeeming sense of compassion absent from his life up to this point.
		Written with the austere clarity that has made J. Coetzee the winner of two Booker Prizes, Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes, with unforgettable, at times almost unbearable, vividness the plight of a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of racial oppression.
		ABOUT J. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/disgrace.html (1449 words)

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