A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader

by André Brink (Editor), J. M. Coetzee (Editor)

Overview

The voices of South Africa: a superb collection of writings from a country torn by political struggle.

André Brink and J. M. Coetzee, two of South Afirca's most important authors, have compiled a collection of English and Afrikaans writings that give a unique and vivid picture of the reality of life in South Africa during the past decade. In a time of political turmoil and violence, these writers have struggled to both explain and affect the society of their native land.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140100044
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/24/1987
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.74(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.