name: J.M. Coetzee
birth_date: 1940-02-09 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Walser, Samuel Beckett, Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil,  Heinrich von Kleist, Daniel De, Flaubert
avg_rating: 3.77
ratings_count: 301574
about: John Maxwell Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa. He became an Australian citizen in 2006 after relocating there in 2002. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.