John Maxwell Coetzee je jihoafrický a australský autor, držitel Řádu Mapungubwe a Nobelovy ceny za literaturu z roku 2003, který emigroval z Jižní Afriky v roce 2002. Australské občanství obdržel 6. března 2006. Je dvojnásobným držitelem Man Booker Prize za romány Život a doba Michaela K. a Hanebnost, za nějž obdržel také Prix Femina.
Coetzee je běloch, Afrikánec s holandskými a německými kořeny. Vystudoval matematiku a angličtinu. Pracoval ve Velké Británii jako programátor, studia zakončil na texaské univerzitě (University of Texas at Austin) disertací o díle Samuela Becketta. Stále působí jako učitel anglické literatury. Ve svém díle kritizuje krátkozrakou politiku apartheidu ve své zemi, ale vyhýbá se jednoduchým soudům i řešením. Jeho styl je jednoduchý, přímočarý, důraz v jeho románech je kladen na atmosféru odcizení, nepochopení, ze které paradoxně jeho hrdinové čerpají pocit jistoty. Coetzee přiznává vliv existencialismu (Kafka, Beckett) na své psaní.
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