Waiting for the Barbarians Theme / Moral

         John Maxwell Coetzee is a novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Cape Town in South Africa in 1940. He was educated in South Africa and the United State as a computer scientist and linguist. His first work of fiction was Dusklands (1974), which was followed by Waiting for the Barbarian (1980). It was awarded the CNA prize, his masterpiece Life and Times of Michael K was published in 1983 which won the Booker prize. Disgrace (1999) is another famous novel which proved to be the best seller. 

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