About the Author

J. M. Coetzee is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist and translator, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and two times a winner of the Man Booker Award.

Hermann Wittenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa where he teaches courses in Ecocritical Writing, South African Literature and Digital Culture. He has written several articles on JM Coetzee for accredited, peer-reviewed journals.