J. M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also won the Booker Prize twice, the Jerusalem Prize, CNA Prize (thrice), the Prix Femina étranger, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, as well as many other awards and honours, and he holds a number of honorary doctorates and is one of the most acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.

Novels

  • Dusklands (1974) ISBN 0-14-024177-9
  • In the Heart of the Country (1977) ISBN 0-14-006228-9
  • Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) ISBN 0-14-006110-X
  • Life & Times of Michael K (1983) ISBN 0-14-007448-1
  • Foe (1986) ISBN 0-14-009623-X
  • Age of Iron (1990) ISBN 0-14-027565-7
  • The Master of Petersburg (1994) ISBN 0-14-023810-7
  • Disgrace (1999) ISBN 978-0-14-311528-1
  • Elizabeth Costello (2003) ISBN 0-670-03130-5
  • Slow Man (2005) ISBN 0-670-03459-2
  • Diary of a Bad Year (2007) ISBN 1-84655-120-X
  • The Childhood of Jesus (2013) ISBN 978-1-84655-726-2
  • The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) ISBN 978-1-91121-535-6
  • The Death of Jesus (2019) ISBN 978-1-92226-828-0
  • The Pole (2022)[1]

Autobiographical novels

Short fiction

Collections
  • The Lives of Animals (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) ISBN 0-691-07089-X
  • Three Stories (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2014) ISBN 9781922182562
  • Siete cuentos morales (Barcelona: El Hilo de Ariadna/Literatura Random House, 2018), translated into Spanish from the unpublished manuscript Moral Tales.[2] Moral Tales has also been translated into French and Italian and released as L'abattoir de verre (translated by Georges Lory. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2018) and Bugie e altri racconti morali (Torino: Giulio Enaudi Editori, 2019). A Japanese translation, by Nozomi Kubota, was published in 2018 (Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin).
Stories[3]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
A house in Spain 2000 Coetzee, J. M. (2000). "A house in Spain". Architectural Digest. 57 (10): 68–76. Coetzee, J. M. (2014). Three stories. Melbourne: Text Publishing.
The African experience 2002 Coetzee, J. M. (2002). "The African experience". Preservation. 54 (2): 20–24. Coetzee, J. M. (2014). Three stories. Melbourne: Text Publishing. Later published as "Nietverloren".
He and his man 2003 Coetzee, J. M. (2006). Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2005. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing. pp. He and his man. Coetzee, J. M. (2014). Three stories. Melbourne: Text Publishing.
As a woman grows older 2004 Coetzee, J. M. (15 January 2004). "As a woman grows older". The New York Review of Books.
The old woman and the cats Bruyckere, Berlinde de & J. M. Coetzee (2013). Cripplewood = Kreupelhout. Brussels: Mercatorfonds.
Nietverloren 2009 Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing (Oxford: New Internationalist Publications, 2009). ISBN 9781906523244 Originally published as "The African experience" (2002).
The dog 2017 Coetzee, J. M. (4 December 2017). "The dog". The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 39. pp. 60–61.

Criticism

  • Truth in Autobiography (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 1984)
  • White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988) ISBN 0-300-03974-3
  • Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, ed. David Attwell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) ISBN 0-674-21518-4
  • Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 0-226-11176-8
  • The Novel in Africa (Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 1999)
  • Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986–1999 (London: Secker & Warburg, 2001) ISBN 0-14-200137-6
  • Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000–2005 (London: Harvill Secker, 2007) ISBN 0-09-950614-9
  • Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011 (New York, NY: Viking, 2013) ISBN 0-670-02666-2, a collection of letters exchanged with Paul Auster
  • The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, with Arabella Kurtz (New York, NY: Viking, 2015) ISBN 978-0-525-42951-7
  • Late Essays: 2006-2017 (London: Harvill Secker, 2017) ISBN 978-1-91121-543-1

Translations and introductions

Interviews

Biography

  • Kannemeyer, J. C. (2012). J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball. ISBN 978-1-86842-495-5.
  • Attwell, David (2015). J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time. New York, NY: Viking Books. ISBN 978-0-525-42961-6.

Film and television adaptations

  • Dust, dir. Marion Hänsel (1985). An adaptation of In the Heart of the Country.
  • The Lives of Animals, dir. Alex Harvey (2002).
  • De Muze / The Muse, dir. Ben van Lieshout (2007). An adaptation of Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II.
  • Disgrace, dir. Steve Jacobs (2008).
  • While the above four adaptations were not written by him, Coetzee has penned screenplays for In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians. Though these had not been produced as of their publishing, they are in J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays, ed. Hermann Wittenberg (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-77582-080-2
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, dir. Ciro Guerra (2019). Coetzee is credited with writing the screenplay.

Collaborations

Critical studies of Coetzee's work

Monographs
  • Dovey, Teresa (1988). The Novels of J.M. Coetzee: Lacanian allegories. Johannesburg: Ad. Donker. ISBN 0-86852-132-9.
  • Penner, Dick (1989). Countries of the Mind: The Fiction of J. M. Coetzee. New York, NY: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26684-0.
  • Gallagher, Susan VanZanten (1991). A Story of South Africa: J.M. Coetzee's Fictions in Context. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-83972-2.
  • Attwell, David (1993). J. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07812-8.
  • Kossew, Sue (1996). Pen and Power: A Post-Colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and André Brink. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-0094-0.
  • Head, Dominic (1997). J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48232-5.
  • Attridge, Derek (2004). J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-03117-0.
  • Canepari-Labib, Michela (2005). Old Myths-Modern Empires: Power, Language, and Identity in J. M. Coetzee's work. Oxford; New York, NY: Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-7191-7.
  • Wright, Laura (2006). Writing 'out of all the camps': J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-97707-4.
  • Masłoń, Sławomir (2007). Père-Versions of the Truth: The Novels of J.M. Coetzee. Katowice: University of Silesia. ISBN 978-83-226-1721-2.
  • Mulhall, Stephen (2008). The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13737-7.
  • Poyner, Jane (2009). J. M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5462-9.
  • Clarkson, Carrol (2009). J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices. Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-22156-7.
  • Nashef, Hania A.M. (2009). The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-65260-5.
  • Marais, Mike (2009). Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2712-1.
  • Head, Dominic (2009). The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68709-6.
  • Dooley, Gillian (2010). J. M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative. New York: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1-60497-673-1.
  • van der Vlies, Andrew (2010). J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace'. New York, NY: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-0661-3.
  • Hayes, Patrick (2010). J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics After Beckett. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958795-7.
  • Lazo Pablo, J.M. Coetzee. Los imaginarios de la Resistencia, Akal, España, 2017. ISBN 6079753774
  • López, María J. (2011). Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J. M. Coetzee. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-3407-5.
  • MacFarlane, Elizabeth (2013). Reading Coetzee. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-3701-4.
  • Hallemeier, Katherine (2013). J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-137-35254-5.
  • Pawlicki, Marek (2013). Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism: Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J. M. Coetzee. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-443-85304-0.
  • Zimbler, Jarad (2015). J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04625-2.
  • Crewe, Jonathan (2015). In the Middle of Nowhere: J. M. Coetzee in South Africa. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-761-86693-0.
  • Wilm, Jan (2016). The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-474-25645-2.
  • Uhlmann, Anthony (2020). J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-501-35747-3.
  • Wiegandt, Kai (2020). J. M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-29305-5.
  • Moody, Alys (2018). The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882889-1
  • Attwell, David (2015). J. M. Coetzee & the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-874633-1
  • Attridge, Derek (2004). J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event. Chicago: Chicago University Press. ISBN 0-226-03116-0
  • Hayes, Patrick (201). J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics After Beckett. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958795-7
  • Dean, Andrew (2021). Metafiction and the Postwar Novel: Foes, Ghosts and Faces in the Water. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-887140-8
Collected essays
  • The Writings of J. M. Coetzee, ed. Michael Valdez Moses (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994).
  • Critical perspectives on J. M. Coetzee, eds. Graham Huggan and Stephen Watson (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996).
  • Critical Essays on J. M. Coetzee, ed. Sue Kossew (New York, NY: G.K. Hall, 1998).
  • A Universe of (Hi)stories: Essays on J. M. Coetzee, ed. Liliana Sikorska (Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2006).
  • J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, ed. Jane Poyner (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006).
  • J. M. Coetzee: Critical Perspectives, ed. Kailash C. Baral (New Delhi: Pencraft, 2008).
  • J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory, eds. Elleke Boehmer, Katy Iddiols, and Robert Eaglestone (London; New York, NY: Continuum, 2009).
  • J. M. Coetzee's Austerities, eds. Graham Bradshaw and Michael Neill (Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010).
  • J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature, eds. Anton Leist and Peter Singer (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2010).
  • A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee, eds. Tim Mehigan (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).
  • Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary fiction, eds. Chris Danta, Sue Kossew, and Julian Murphet (New York, NY: Routledge, 2011).
  • Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's 'Disgrace' and Other Works, eds. Laura Wright, Jane Poyner, and Elleke Boehmer (The Modern Language Association of America, 2014).
  • J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things, eds. Anthony Uhlmann and Jennifer Rutherford (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
  • Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J. M. Coetzee, eds. Patrick Hayes and Jan Wilm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
  • The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee, eds. Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser (Columbia, MD: Boydell & Brewer, 2018).
  • The Cambridge Companion to J.M. Coetzee, ed. Jarad Zimbler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Notes

  1. Harbour, Berna González (13 September 2022). "J. M. Coetzee: 'After many years of practice, I write good English sentences'". EL PAÍS English Edition.
  2. Attridge, Derek (25 August 2019). "The South According to Coetzee". Public Books. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  4. Roszak, Joanna (July 2012). "And We Break Down Ourselves" Bi-Weekly, Polish National Audiovisual Institute
  5. Derkaczew, Joanna (11 July 2012). "'Slow Man' - Coetzee w operze. Jak gaśnie człowiek". Gazeta Wyborcza.
  6. Books Live South Africa .
  7. Willem De Vries, South Africa, Boekenbrug .
  8. Uitgeverij Cossee .
  9. JM Coetzee NL Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. Lepszy Poznan Publikacje .
  11. The Ordinary Man, Dorota Semenowicz (Empik) .
  12. Published in conjunction with the exhibition by Berlinde de Bruyckere titled Kreupelhout - Cripplewood, held at the Pavilion of Belgium, 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 1 June-24 November 2013.
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