A Brief Introduction to the Author of Youth

John Maxwell Coetzee (J.M. Coetzee 1940 ——) and Coetzee1940 were born in Cape Town, South Africa, and they are descendants of Dutch immigrants. Growing up in South Africa, the apartheid policy gradually took shape and prevailed. 1960, he left south Africa and went to London to design computer software. 1965 went to the United States to study for a doctor of literature, and became a professor at new york State University after graduation. 197 1 returned to south Africa and taught in the English department of cape town university. Moved to Australia in 2002. He is currently a member of the Social Thought Committee of the University of Chicago, where he teaches. As soon as the novel Waiting for the Barbarian (1980) was published, it won the Faber Memorial Award and the Blake Memorial Award, which won Kucher an international reputation. The Life and Times of Michael K (1983) won the British Booker Prize, the highest honor in English literature, in the year of its publication. Shame won the Booker Prize again with 1999, making Coetzee the only writer who won the prize twice. Master Petersburg, published by 1994, won the Irish Times International Novel Award. Boys (1997) and Youth (2002) are autobiographical novels, which reveal the unknown side of his life. Other important works include Dark Land (1974), Deep Inland (1997), Fu (1986), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) and Slow Man (2003). Each of Coetzee's works has a completely different style and diverse meanings. He is one of the most award-winning writers in English literature. In addition to the above awards, he also won the French Fermine Prize, Pulitzer Prize and 2000 Commonwealth Writers Award. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.