Writings by 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature John Maxwell Coetzee have been introduced to China, with the painstaking labor of many famous translators.  

The available publications include five of his representative works, like Waiting for the Barbarians, Youth, and Life and Times of Michael K.

Coetzee, from South Africa, is skilled in precisely depicting human nature under various kinds of contrived masks, which is brilliantly illustrated in Disgrace and In the Heart of the Country.

Last October, the 63-year-old writer won the Noble Prize in Literature with his novel Disgrace, a work that reflects South Africa's complicated society and relationships in post-apartheid Cape Town.

(CRI.com April 22, 2004)