J.M. Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa to a primary school teacher of a mother and an attorney of a father. Coetzee remembers speaking a lot of English at home. It was his parents’ language of choice, and it was the language that was most spoken in their household. He is a South novelist who migrated to and acquired Australian citizenship.
Books in order of publication:
Jesus Trilogy Books
| The Childhood of Jesus | (2013) | |
| The Schooldays of Jesus | (2016) | |
| The Death of Jesus | (2019) |
Scenes from Provincial Life Books
| Boyhood | (1997) | |
| Youth | (2002) | |
| Summertime | (2009) | |
| Scenes from Provincial Life | (2011) |
Standalone Novels
| In the Heart of the Country | (1976) | |
| The Lives of Animals | (1977) | |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | (1980) | |
| Life and Times of Michael K | (1983) | |
| Foe | (1986) | |
| Age Of Iron | (1990) | |
| The Master of Petersburg | (1994) | |
| Disgrace | (1999) | |
| Elizabeth Costello | (2001) | |
| Slow Man | (2005) | |
| Diary of a Bad Year | (2007) | |
| The Pole | (2023) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| White Writing | (1988) | |
| Doubling the Point | (1992) | |
| Giving Offense | (1996) | |
| Stranger Shores | (2001) | |
| The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003 | (2003) | |
| Inner Workings | (2007) | |
| Here and Now (With: Paul Auster) | (2012) | |
| The Good Story | (2015) | |
| Late Essays | (2017) | |
| J.M. Coetzee – Photographs from Boyhood | (2020) |
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