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Formidable: JM Coetzee is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2003 Nobel prize for literature. (Micheline Pelletier/Corbis via Getty Images)
AMAZWI SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM OF LITERATURE

JM Coetzee: A fine mind, a formidable intellect

Behind JM Coetzee, the writer lauded for his ‘wonderfully brave, bold mind’ , is John Coetzee, the quiet man

  • Angelo Fick
7 min read