J. M. Coetzee

Books on prize lists

• Summertime

  Written in English

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  Booker 2009 · Shortlist

  Summertime

  Summertime

  J. M. Coetzee · 69 when first published

  Novel · 272 pages · Autofiction · Scenes from Provincial Life, book 3

  AIAI-generated summary:A young English biographer writing about the late author John Coetzee interviews people who knew him in the 1970s, when he lived with his widowed father in a run-down cottage outside Cape Town.

• Elizabeth Costello

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2004 · Shortlist

  Elizabeth Costello

  Elizabeth Costello

  J. M. Coetzee · 63 when first published

  Novel · 240 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:An ageing Australian novelist, famous above all for one early book, travels the world to give lectures and accept honours, and finds that she has become the object of other people's scrutiny.