J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940) grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, in an Afrikaner family that spoke English at home. He studied mathematics and English at the University of Cape Town, earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, and spent several years working as a computer programmer in London before returning to academia. He taught literature at the University of Cape Town for decades before emigrating to Australia in 2002. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Disgrace.