A Brief Introduction to the Life of John Maxwell Coetzee

Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 1940. He has a dual background of Germany and Britain, but his mother tongue is English. From 65438 to 0960, Coetzee moved to England to work as a computer programmer. After that, he went to the United States to study literature and received a doctorate, and taught literature at the State University of new york at Bafaro. The first novel, published in 1974, started a little late, but achieved remarkable results. He won the British Booker Prize for 1983 "The Life and Times of Michael K". From 65438 to 0984, he returned to the University of Cape Town and became a professor of English literature at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. From 65438 to 0984, Coetzee became the head of the English Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and his inaugural speech was entitled Truth in Autobiography. 1999 won the Booker Prize again in shame, becoming the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice in history. Booker Prize is only awarded to the creators of English original works, and here, Coetzee's South African background is also of great significance. Ku cut out novels and also engaged in translation, writing literary reviews and book reviews. He often doesn't specify the regional background in his works, but similar to South Africa's long-standing apartheid policy, he has formed a biased and ignorant social concept, which leads to confusion in values and behaviors, but it is the theme of his creation. He moved to Australia in 2002, became an Australian citizen and worked at the University of Adelaide. In 2003, he was awarded the title of Nobel Prize in Literature, and together with another Nobel Prize in Literature winner, gordimer, he was regarded as a twin star in the South African contemporary literary world. In the same year, he taught Autobiography in the Social Thought Committee of the University of Chicago.