J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell "J. M." Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide. He became an Australian citizen in 2006
== Tossup Questions ==
# A character is one of this author's novels describes feeling a "metaphysical ache" when he first sees the woman he hires as his secretary. In another of his novels, the protagonist smashes the limbs of dead dogs so that they can more easily fit in an incinerator. In another of his novels, essays that are to be submitted for the book Strong Opinions are interspersed with narrations by Señor C. and his secretary Anya. One of his protagonists is badly burned when attacked by two men who then rape his daughter. Simón and David try to adjust to life in Novilla in a 2013 novel by this author, and he also described Professor David Lurie leaving Cape Town to live on his daughter's farm. For 10 points, name this author of Disgrace.
# One character created by this author takes great pleasure in massaging and oiling the feet of a blind girl crippled by the Third Bureau. This author wrote about Susan Barton, a castaway on the same island as Robinson Crusoe, in his novel Foe. This author created a character who sleeps with his student Melanie Isaacs, the professor David Lurie, in one novel. Another of this author's novels centers on a hare-lipped gardener's attempts to return to his mother's home town. For 10 points, identify this South African author of Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace, and The Life of Times of Michael K.
# In a short story by this author, Senhora Nascimento disapproves of her daughter Maria Regina's extra English teacher. Magda builds a fire and tries to signal to an airplane at the end of one of his works. This author of "Adriana" and Age of Iron wrote about a Magistrate who is visited by Colonel Joll in one work. He wrote of a hair-lipped gardener who has a dying grandmother in another novel. He also wrote about an affair between Melanie Isaacs and her professor David Laurie and his eventual downfall. For 10 points, name this South African author of Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K.