Readers waiting expectantly for the third novel in J. M. Coetzee’s late trilogy, following The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, were in for a ...
Derek Attridge
Derek Attridge’s books range from accounts of poetic form to studies of James Joyce. They include J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading (University of Chicago Press, 2004), The Work of Literature (Oxford University Press, 2015), and, as coeditor, Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995 (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Cambridge History of South African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is Emeritus Professor at the University of York. 
The Triumph of Afrikaans Fiction
I’m reading one of the great novels of our time. I’m doing so slowly because it’s in Afrikaans, and although I learned the language for many years in South ...
The South African Novel Today
Who is South Africa’s leading English novelist? Who has succeeded Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee—still with us, but hardly a South African novelist any longer? Since the arrival of democracy ...