J. M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee is a South African-Australian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 and the Booker Prize twice — the only author to achieve this feat. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living writers in the English language. The Childhood of Jesus is a mysterious, allegorical novel about a man and a boy who arrive in a new city with no memories of their previous lives, searching for the boy's mother. Coetzee's spare, luminous prose creates a parable about language, identity, love, and the strangeness of being human. Coetzee's audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most profound and challenging literary fiction being written today. His work appeals to readers who seek out novels that operate simultaneously as story and philosophical inquiry.