" He holds honorary doctorates from The American University of Paris, the University of Adelaide, La Trobe University, the University of Natal, the University of Oxford, Rhodes University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Technology, Sydney and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań==Public image==Coetzee is known as reclusive and avoids publicity to such an extent that he did not collect either of his two Booker Prizes in person.
Nominiran je bil tudi za romane Poletje (2009), Elizabeth Costello (2003) in Slow Man (2005).