John Coetzee News Today

Nearly a decade after Obj’s outburst, Kongi is leading us into a new pastime of his: a search for next Nigerian Nobel Laureate in Literature.

‘Dusklands’ and ‘Disgrace’ address the complicity of writers in events that are too easily dismissed as beyond their capacity to influence.

The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.

The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.

Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind

In a new collection of the author’s private letters and diaries, he lets loose on mental health, the Miles Franklin, and turning down an Australian Day honour. ‘I still wouldn’t accept one,’ he says now

The Nobel Prize for Literature is announced this morning, making this the most important day of the year. Alan Siegal on good writing.

For 50 years the Nobel laureate and double Booker prize winner has been dividing opinion with his novels on power, humanity, war, the death of ‘Jesus’ and dogs – many dogs

His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

It’s the image of the breakdown of order, even more than the image of fires and floods, that fills me with horror.