J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg,Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
'Disgrace is the best novel Coetzee has written.' * London Review of Books * 'A masterpiece...perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade.' * Independent * 'Exhilarating...One of the best novelists alive.' * Sunday Times * 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today.' * The Times * 'Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature.' * Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph * 'Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa.' * Daily Telegraph *