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5/13/02

John Sanford, News Service (650) 736-2151; e-mail: jsanford@stanford.edu

J. M. Coetzee, South African novelist, to read from work

J. M. Coetzee, the eminent South African novelist who is teaching at Stanford this quarter as a visiting professor of English, is scheduled to read selections from his soon-to-be-released Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, in the Terrace Room of Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460).

The event is free and open to the public. Youth is a sequel to Coetzee's 1997 memoir, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.

A professor at the University of Cape Town, Coetzee is the only author to have won the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, twice ­ in 1983 for The Life and Times of Michael K. and again in 1999 for Disgrace.

Coetzee is the author of six other novels and several other works, including Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996) and White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988).

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By John Sanford