- Born
- Birth nameJohn Maxwell Coetzee
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- J.M. Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a writer, known for Waiting for the Barbarians (2019), Disgrace (2008) and Dust (1985).
- Touchstone of self-esteem in the Post-Apartheid era.
- Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 151-160. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Nelson Mandela has died after a long life - long yet lamentably truncated in that he spent twenty-seven of the best years of his manhood incarcerated at the pleasure of the state. He was, and by the time of his death universally held to be, a great man. He well may be the last of the great men, as the concept of greatness retires into the historical shadows.
- We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable
- I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats
- Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
- Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light
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