Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
by COETZEE, J. M
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J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. His many awards include the Booker Prize, twice, for The Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. He is a two-time Booker Prize winner, has also won the CNA prize, South Africa's premier literary award (three times), the Prix Etranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
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- Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
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- COETZEE, J. M
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- Secker & Warburg 2001
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- JM Coetzee literary criticism essays Daniel Defoe Samuel Richardson Turgenev Rilke Kafka Musil Brodsky Mulisch Borges Rushdie Gordimer Lessing Mahfouz Oz books writing classics photography
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