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J. M. Coetzee

Also known as John Maxwell Coetzee, John Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

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J. M. Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist and scholar born in 1940 who is known for exploring complex moral and political themes, particularly those related to violence, colonialism, and power. His work has earned international recognition and made him one of the most significant literary voices of the late 20th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 9 Feb 1940
Works: 152

Top works

ילדותו של ישו
This is not a border
Naʻarut
Ara i aquí. Cartes 2008-2011
Here and Now

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: South Africa
Active from: 1940-02-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 29
Total plays: 721

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria
· 2018 · cited 7,151x
UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 5,971x
Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2019 · cited 2,544x
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
· 2022 · cited 2,543x
Molecular Profiling Reveals Biologically Discrete Subsets and Pathways of Progression in Diffuse Glioma
· 2016 · cited 1,919x

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Quotes

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”
“As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.”
“A dictum [Beckett] quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.”
“Light in tone, the novel [Murphy] is Beckett’s response to the therapeutic orthodoxy that the patient should learn to engage with the larger world on the world’s terms.”
“The activity of writing, then, is not to be distinguished from the activity of self-exploration. It consists in contemplating the sea of internal images, discerning connections, and setting these out in grammatical sentences (“I could never conceive of a network of meaning too complex to be expressed in a series of grammatical sentences,” says Murnane, whose views on grammar are firm, even pedantic.)”
“The new men of Empire are the ones who believe in fresh starts, new chapters, clean pages; I struggle on with the old story, hoping that before it is finished it will reveal to me why it was that I thought it worth the trouble.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature2003
“who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: J. M. Coetzee
date of birth: 1940-01-01
name in native language: John Maxwell Coetzee
Commons gallery: John Maxwell Coetzee
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to J. M. Coetzee, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.

Coetzee moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2006. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is patron of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His most recently published book is The Pole and Other Stories (2023).