is a distinguished South African author and academic, whose eight novels have won many awards. When, in 1999, Disgrace won the Booker Prize, Professor Coetzee became the first person to win the prestigious award twice (his book Life & Times of Michael K won it in 1983). Educated in South Africa and then in the USA, he became Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1968-71. He then went on to hold a series of appointments at the University of Cape Town, most recently as Distinguished Professor of Literature.