J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist and translator, born in 1940. He received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize twice, among other honours, and his novel Disgrace is among his best known. He has also won the Jerusalem Prize and the Prix Femina etranger, among many other awards and honorary doctorates. He moved to Australia in 2002, became an Australian citizen in 2006, and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.