From censorship and survival through literature

Abstract

From censorship and survival through literature John Maxwell Coetzee - better known by J. M. Coetzee - is a South African writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His first work published by a Brazilian publisher was Desonra, by Companhia das Letras (2000). Since then, the author's other books have been brought to the national public, such as Childhood (2010), Waiting for the Barbarians (2006) and Bad Yearbook (2008). Born in the 1940s and having started his literary activity in the 1970s, Coetzee experienced the bitter years of apartheid and made material from many of his novels and essays. In his writing, whether fictional or essayistic, one inevitably sees criticisms of oppression, censorship, and every form of man's domination by man.