Age of Iron

J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K. in 1983 and for Disgrace. in 1999. In 2003 he was awared the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia.