John maxwell 'j. M.' coetzee is a celebrated writer, linguist and essayist from south africa. He was born and brought up in cape town and studied mathematics and english at the university of cape town. After that he went to the united kingdom and worked as a computer programmer and went to university of texas to do his phd in english, linguistics and germanic languages. After the completion of his doctorate he started teaching english literature at the state university of new york, buffalo. He had to return back to south africa because he was denied the pr in the u. S. He started teaching at the university of cape town and began the journey of writing from there on. He was awarded a nobel prize in literature for his novel 'dusklands'; he is also a winner of two booker prizes and many nominations. He not only writes novels and novellas but has also written collection of essays and fictionalized some of his literary lectures and memoirs. He is a proud owner of numerous honorary doctorates from the prestigious educational institutes from around the world. He lives in australia now with his long-term partner dorothy driver and is an honorary professor at the university of adelaide.