Prof. John Maxwell Coetzee
Prof. John Maxwell Coetzee
Award date: 23 October 2018
USil Senate resolution date: 26 June 2018, Resolution No. 259
Applying unit: Council of the Faculty of Philology
Prof. John Maxwell Coetzee is one of the most outstanding contemporary writers, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2003), two-time winner of the Booker Prize (1983, 1999) and other prestigious literary awards, winner of the highest decoration in South Africa, professor of literature, the honorary member of the research centre named after him at the University of Adelaide, a respected literary scholar and translator.
