By invitation of the Center for Writers & Translators and the Department of Comparative Literature & English, John Coetzee will attend and read at an evening of celebrations of his work, prior to his receiving an honorary degree at the American University of Paris graduation ceremony. Members of the AUP community – students and faculty – will share their responses to his work.

J. M.Coetzee is the author of more than a dozen novels, of three fictionalised volumes of autobiography, of five books of collected essays, and of numerous translations and reviews. He has won the Booker Prize twice, for his novels Life & Times of Michael K. and Disgrace, and was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2003.