Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0140296409
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
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. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the
University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the
Barbarians, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency
Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded
his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a
Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes
including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times
International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace,
becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history.
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