John maxwell coetzee disgrace6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coetzee now lives permanently in Adelaide, Australia. He had two children, a daughter Gisela, born in 1968, and a son, Nicholas, who died in an accident when 23. He also advocates that Coetzee's childhood fascination with the semi-desert Karoo landscape, where he spent school holidays on his uncle's farm, was crucial in the choice of later novel settings.Ĭoetzee married South African Phillipa Jubber in 1963, and was divorced in the 1980s. Supporters of the liberal South African party of General Jan Smuts, his parents opposed the conservative Afrikaner nationalists who ultimately came to power in South Africa in 1948, beginning a racist and oppressive apartheid regime.Ĭoetzee’s formative experience was bilingual, enabling him to depict his Afrikaans and English characters sensitively: "an uncommon occurrence in South African literature which, as part of the legacy of a divided society, is riddled with ethnic stereotypes" believes Michael Marais, PhD, who studied Coetzee. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a picturesque Western Cape town northeast of the famous South African harbour city. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. ![]()
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