J.M. Coetzee

Nov 5, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | A.S. Byatt |George Saunders |J.M. Coetzee |Julian Barnes

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, winner of the Booker Prize 2017An anarchic, grotesque, bawdy, foul-mouthed, tender, grief-stricken, hopeful, human novel, set within a graveyard. George Saunders’ 2017 Booker Prize-winning novel boasts a cast of hundreds – almost all of whom are dead. Lincoln in the Bardo is set in the days following the death of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Willie, and focuses on the grief-stricken President’s visits to the crypt to hold his deceased child’s body.

Aug 30, 2024 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | Zadie Smith |Colin Barrett |Rachel Kushner |J.M. Coetzee

This August, we’ve been celebrating Women in Translation Month (WIT Month), a key initiative of the WIT movement aimed at addressing the gender imbalance in global literature. What imbalance, you might wonder? Currently, only 36% of books translated into English come from non-European countries, and of these, a mere 31% of these translations are written by women. It’s an alarming statistic.

Jun 13, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Colm Toibin |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |J.M. Coetzee

For Father’s Day, we’ve selected 10 Booker Prize-nominated novels with distinctive dads at their centre – the good, the bad and the monstrous Written by John Self Publication date and time: Published June 13, 2024‘A stodgy parent is no fun at all,’ wrote Roald Dahl in Danny the Champion of the World. ‘What a child wants – and deserves – is a parent who is SPARKY.’ Danny’s father in Dahl’s book was particularly sparky, full of ideas, learning and kindness while always retaining a sense of fun.

Jun 2, 2024 | biblioracle.substack.com | Salman Rushdie |J.M. Coetzee |Michel Houellebecq |John Warner

(This post may be too long for some email clients. Click through to see the full post.)The title of Sal Khan’s new book, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing), makes two implicit claims:AI will revolutionize education. The AI revolution is “a good thing.”It is strange, then, that the book makes no real attempt to grapple with the implications of its own argument.

May 16, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | J.M. Coetzee

Skip to main content J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a multi-award-winning author, and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works of fiction include Dusklands; Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honour, the Central News Agency Literary Award; and Life & Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983.