Which South African author was the first person to win the Booker Prize twice with his novel 'Disgrace'?
"Disgrace (film) Disgrace is a 2008 Australian film based on J. M. Coetzee's novel of the same name. It was adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli and directed by her husband Steve Jacobs. Starring American actor John Malkovich and South African newcomer Jessica Haines, it tells the story of a South African university professor in the post-apartheid era who moves to his daughter's Eastern Cape farm when his affair with a student costs him his position. It received generally positive reviews. David Lurie (John Malkovich) is an ageing white professor teaching Romantic literature at an unnamed university in"
"a reason for the move, leading to a spat with Thabo Mbeki, who, speaking of Coetzee's novel ""Disgrace"" stated that ""South Africa is not only a place of rape"". In 1999, the African National Congress submission to an investigation into racism in the media by the South African Human Rights Commission named ""Disgrace"" as a novel depicting racist stereotypes. However, when Coetzee won his Nobel Prize, Mbeki congratulated him ""on behalf of the South African nation and indeed the continent of Africa"". Coetzee has never specified any political orientation, though has alluded to politics in his work. Writing about his"
"he has a reputation for avoiding award ceremonies. He was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for ""Life & Times of Michael K"" in 1983, and again for ""Disgrace"" in 1999. Two other authors have since managed this – Peter Carey (in 1988 and 2001) and Hilary Mantel (in 2009 and 2012). ""Summertime"", named on the 2009 longlist, was an early favourite to win an unprecedented third Booker Prize for Coetzee. It subsequently made the shortlist, but lost out to bookmakers' favourite and eventual winner ""Wolf Hall"" by Hilary Mantel. Coetzee was also longlisted in"
"& Times of Michael K. His 1999 novel ""Disgrace"" won him his second Booker Prize as well as the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is also the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, author of ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Silmarillion"", was born in Bloemfontein in 1892. South Africa has a rich tradition of oral poetry. Several influential African poets became prominent in the 1970s such as Mongane Wally Serote, whose most famous work, ""No Baby Must Weep"", gave insight into the everyday lives of black South"
"are ""three of South Africa's most distinguished white writers, all with definite anti-apartheid commitment"". It has been argued that Coetzee's 1999 novel ""Disgrace"" allegorises South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Asked about his views on the TRC, Coetzee stated, ""In a state with no official religion, the TRC was somewhat anomalous: a court of a certain kind based to a large degree on Christian teaching and on a strand of Christian teaching accepted in their hearts by only a tiny proportion of the citizenry. Only the future will tell what the TRC managed to achieve"". Following his Australian citizenship ceremony,"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and was named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul"
"mythe: een structuralistische en een hermeneutische benadering."" Back in South Africa she lectured in Philosophy at the University of Zululand, and later at Unisa. Afterwards she was lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Witwatersrand. Marlene van Niekerk is now Professor at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University. Marlene van Niekerk Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel ""Triomf"". Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with"
"Cholmondeley Award. ""A Separate Development"" was the recipient of the David Higham Memorial Prize. Hope won the Whitbread Prize in 1984 for ""Kruger's Alp"". Hope has also been awarded the Professor Alexander Petrie Award, the Silver Pen Award, and in 1992 shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with ""Serenity House"". He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1990. • ""The Café de Move-on Blues"" 2018. Christopher Hope Christopher Hope, FRSL (born 26 February 1944) is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South"
"in September 2017. He is the author of a series of best-selling books in South Africa, that explore dark subject matter with humor, the first of which was: ""Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Kak?"" in 2007 and ""Complete Kak"" in 2011. He cofounded a book imprint in 2002 called Two Dogs and collaborated with South African authors in writing books for men. The books started a trend in South Africa, of books that tackled serious social issues with irreverent humor. In 2003 he was asked by the South African Government to redesign the new parliamentary mace, that replaced"
"the first well known novels written by a black author in an African language was Solomon Thekiso Plaatje's ""Mhudi"", written in 1930. During the 1950s, ""Drum"" magazine became a hotbed of political satire, fiction, and essays, giving a voice to urban black culture. Notable white South African authors include Alan Paton, who published the novel ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" in 1948. Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1991. JM Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2003. When awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy stated that Coetzee ""in innumerable"
"Marlene van Niekerk Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel ""Triomf"". Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa. She explains that the portraying the separation of the sexes in her work is the result of being ""outside the main arena"" as an Afrikaner lesbian. Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954 on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon in the Western Cape, South Africa."
"behaviour and academic dereliction led to another expulsion. His first book, ""The House of Hunger"" (1978), is the product of a period of despair following his time at Oxford University. Among the nine stories it contains, the long title story describes the narrator's brutalized childhood and youth in colonial Rhodesia in a style that is emotionally compelling and verbally pyrotechnic. The narrative is characterized by shifts in time and place and a blurring of fantasy and reality. Regarded as signalling a new trend of incisive and visionary African writing, ""The House of Hunger"" was awarded the 1979 ""Guardian"" Fiction Prize."
"of general fiction novels. Kgebetli Moele Kgebetli Moele is a South African writer born in Polokwane, South Africa, best known for his novels ""Room 206"", ""UNTITLED"" and ""The Book of the Dead"". Moele's first book, Room 207, was published in 2006 and went on to win first prize for both the University of Johannesburg prize and the Herman Charles Bosman Prize. In 2010 he won the South African Literary Award for his second book ""The Book of the Dead"". In 2011, he participated in the International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA."
"initiating the international Poetry Festival and The Time of the Writer. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to South African literature. The first publications of black literature in South Africa were under Ad. Donker Publisher in 1974, with Mongane Wally Serote and Sipho Sepamla. Playwright and author Athol Fugard (""Tsotsi"") and imprisoned poet Dikobe wa Magole (""Baptism of Fire"", ) are among the many authors Donker promoted. With his love for Literature he republished forgotten works by Bessie Head (""Tales of Tenderness and Power""), Olive Schreiner’s ""The Story of an African Farm"", Sol T. Plaatje's ""Mhudi"" and"
"died 2002 in Worthing, Sussex, UK), a South African art teacher, in 1955. His success as a poet was first affirmed in 1956 when he won the Reina Prinsen Geerligs Prize for his volume ""Steenbok tot poolsee"" (the title being a reference to the Tropic of Capricorn and the southern Antarctic Ocean, relating to the geographical location of South and Southern Africa). Blum was twice denied South African citizenship. Kannemeyer (1993) speculates that citizenship was denied because of Blum's vociferous opposition to the predominantly white government's racial policies. Frustrated by this turn of events, Blum and his wife left South"
"Achmat Dangor Achmat Dangor (born 2 October 1948 in Johannesburg) is a South African writer. His most important works include the novels ""Kafka's Curse"" (1997) and ""Bitter Fruit"" (2001), but he is also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and a short-story collection. He is the winner of many literary prizes, including the South African Bosman prize for ""Kafka's Curse"". ""Bitter Fruit"" was shortlisted for Booker Prize for 2004. Dangor is also an active development professional and has headed up various non-governmental organisations in South Africa, including the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and"
"William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ""ploomer"") (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. Self-described as an ""Anglo-African-Asian"", Plomer was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, ""Turbott Wolfe"", which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine ""Voorslag"" (""Whiplash"") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South"
"appeared first in Afrikaans in 1993 (as ""Die Reuk van Appels""). The book garnered significant recognition in the form of the M-Net Award, one of South Africa's most prestigious literary prizes, as well as the Eugene Marais and the CNA Debut Literary Awards in South Africa, and the Betty Trask Award for the best first novel published in the United Kingdom in 1996. The novel was also short-listed for both the Steinbeck and Guardian Literary Awards. In 1997 the novel received the Art Seidenbaum Award from the ""Los Angeles Times"". The attention attracted by the success of this book compelled"
"of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. A 2006 poll of ""literary luminaries"" by ""The Observer"" newspaper named the work as the ""greatest novel of the last 25 years"" of British, Irish or Commonwealth origin in years between 1980 and 2005. A film adaptation of ""Disgrace"" starring John Malkovich had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, where it won the International Critics' Award. Disgrace Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won"
"2003 for ""Elizabeth Costello"" and in 2005 for ""Slow Man"". ""The Schooldays of Jesus"", a follow up to his 2013 novel ""The Childhood of Jesus"", was longlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize. On 2 October 2003, Horace Engdahl, head of the Swedish Academy, announced that Coetzee had been chosen as that year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the fourth African writer to be so honoured and the second South African after Nadine Gordimer. When awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy stated that Coetzee ""in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"". The press release"
"was the Southern Africa Representative for the Ford Foundation. In 2015 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the South African Literary Awards (SALA). He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with his wife, Audrey, and young son Zachary, and devotes his time to his writing. Achmat Dangor Achmat Dangor (born 2 October 1948 in Johannesburg) is a South African writer. His most important works include the novels ""Kafka's Curse"" (1997) and ""Bitter Fruit"" (2001), but he is also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella and a short-story collection. He is the winner of many literary prizes,"
"writer influenced by Girard is J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Critics have noted that mimetic desire and scapegoating are recurring themes in Coetzee's novels ""Elizabeth Costello"" and ""Disgrace."" In the latter work, the book's protagonist also gives a speech about the history of scapegoating with noticeable similarities to Girard's view of the same subject. Coetzee has also frequently cited Girard in his non-fiction essays, on subjects ranging from advertising to the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Some critics have pointed out that while Girard may be the first to have suggested that ""all"" desire is"
"praise name of Tatamkhulu Afrika, which he adopted until he died. In 1987 he was arrested for terrorism and banned from speaking or writing in public for five years, although he continued writing under the name of Tatamkhulu Afrika. He was imprisoned for 11 years in the same prison as Nelson Mandela, and was released in 1992. Tatamkulu Afrika died on 23rd December 2002 shortly after his 82nd birthday, from injuries received when he was run over by a car two weeks before, just after the publication of his final novel, ""Bitter Eden"". He left a number of unpublished works,"
"situation that fits well with American perceptions of South African society. Paton also produced ""Too Late the Phalarope"", another text criticising Apartheid politics, in particular the Immorality Act which forbade interracial sexual relations. During the 1950s, ""Drum"" became a hotbed of political satire, fiction, and essays, giving a voice to urban black culture. Around the same time, future Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer began publishing her first stories. Her most famous novel, ""July's People"", was released in 1981, depicting the collapse of white-minority rule. Athol Fugard's ""Tsotsi"" was also made into a film, although Fugard is usually better known for his"
"Kgebetli Moele Kgebetli Moele is a South African writer born in Polokwane, South Africa, best known for his novels ""Room 206"", ""UNTITLED"" and ""The Book of the Dead"". Moele's first book, Room 207, was published in 2006 and went on to win first prize for both the University of Johannesburg prize and the Herman Charles Bosman Prize. In 2010 he won the South African Literary Award for his second book ""The Book of the Dead"". In 2011, he participated in the International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. Moele's published work consists"
"including his autobiography, two novels, four short novels, two plays and poetry. Tatamkhulu Afrika Ismail Joubert (7 December 1920 – 23 December 2002), commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for ""Grandfather Africa"", was a South African poet and writer. His first novel, ""Broken Earth"" was published when he was seventeen (under his ""Methodist name""), but it was over fifty years until his next publication, a collection of verse entitled ""Nine Lives"". He won numerous literary awards including the gold Molteno Award for lifetime services to South African literature, and in 1996 his works were translated into French. His"
"Caine Prize The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language. The £10,000 prize was founded in the United Kingdom in 2000, and was named in memory of Sir Michael Harris Caine, former Chairman of Booker Group plc. Because of the Caine Prize's connection to the Booker Prize, the award is sometimes called the ""African Booker"". It was first awarded in 2000 to the Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela for her short story ""The Museum"", at the Zimbabwe International"
"Caine Prize The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language. The £10,000 prize was founded in the United Kingdom in 2000, and was named in memory of Sir Michael Harris Caine, former Chairman of Booker Group plc. Because of the Caine Prize's connection to the Booker Prize, the award is sometimes called the ""African Booker"". It was first awarded in 2000 to the Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela for her short story ""The Museum"", at the Zimbabwe International"
"K. Sello Duiker Kabelo ""Sello"" Duiker, (13 April 1974 – 19 January 2005), was a South African novelist. His debut novel, ""Thirteen Cents"", won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. His second novel, ""The Quiet Violence of Dreams"", won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter. Duiker, the eldest of three brothers, was born in Orlando West, Soweto, and raised in Soweto at the height of apartheid by middle-class university-educated parents. Sent out of the township to attend a Catholic primary school from grade 5, he went"
"Jonny Steinberg Jonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar. He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. Two of them, ""Midlands"" (2002), about the murder of a white South African farmer, and ""The Number"" (2004), a biography of a prison gangster, won South Africa’s premier non-fiction award, the ""Sunday Times"" Alan Paton Award. In 2013, he was among the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes, awarded by Yale University. Steinberg’s books also include ""Three-Letter Plague"" (""Sizwe’s Test"" in the United States), which chronicles a young man’s"
"In 1986, he was awarded the MER Prize, and the Scheepers Award for Youth Literature, for the novel ""Die Haasvanger"". Dolf van Niekerk Rudolf Johannes van Niekerk (known as Dolf) (born ) is a South African author, dramatist, radio presenter and professor. He writes in Afrikaans and was a member of the Sestigers group. van Niekerk was born in Edenburg and matriculated at the Edenburg High School. In 1949 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree by the University College of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein, and in 1950 an honours degree in Philosophy at the University of"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel ""Wolf Hall"", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel ""Bring Up the Bodies"", the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G."