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Christopher Tayler: J.M. Coetzee, 21 March 2013
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing
by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns.
Jonathan Ball, 710 pp., R 325, October 2012,978 1 86842 495 5 Show More
by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns.
Jonathan Ball, 710 pp., R 325, October 2012,
Here and Now: Letters 2008-11
by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee.
Viking, 256 pp., $27.95, March 2013,978 0 670 02666 1 Show More
by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee.
Viking, 256 pp., $27.95, March 2013,
The Childhood of Jesus
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill Secker, 210 pp., £16.99, March 2013,978 1 84655 769 9 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill Secker, 210 pp., £16.99, March 2013,
“... A few months before the publication of Dusklands in 1974, J.C. Kannemeyer reports, Peter Randall, the director of Ravan Press in Johannesburg, asked J.M. Coetzee to consider supplying ‘a few more personal details’ for the jacket of his first novel. ‘We are often criticised,’ Randall wrote, ‘for not telling readers about our authors. While I do not want to overdo this, some more information about your school education, for example, or your family background, may be useful ... ”
