He has also written autobiographical novels, short fiction, translations from Dutch and Afrikaans, and numerous essays and works of criticism. Novels Dusklands (1974) In the Heart of the Country (1977) Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) Life & Times of Michael K (1983) Foe (1986) Age of Iron (1990) The Master of Petersburg (1994) Disgrace (1999) Elizabeth Costello (2003) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) The Childhood of Jesus (2013) The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) The Death of Jesus (2019) The Pole (2023) Autobiographical novels Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) Summertime (2009) Scenes from Provincial Life (2011) . An edited single volume of Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, and Summertime. Short fiction The Lives of Animals (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) Three Stories (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2014) Siete cuentos morales (Barcelona: El Hilo de Ariadna/Literatura Random House, 2018) See also List of African writers List of animal rights advocates List of vegetarians Notes References Further reading About Coetzee's work J. M. Coetzee at The New York Times - New York Times reviews of Coetzee's novels J. M. Coetzee: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center (at the University of Texas at Austin) J. M. Coetzee's page as a member of the Australian Research Council project, 'Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature' Nobel Prize (2003) J. M. Coetzee at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive By Coetzee - Book review of No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani (and other commentary relating to the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers) The Lives of Animals, delivered for The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Princeton, 1997 "A Word from J. M. Coetzee", address read by Hugo Weaving at the opening of the exhibition "Voiceless: I Feel Therefore I Am" by Voiceless: The Animal Protection Institute, 22 February 2007, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia External links 1940 births Living people 20th-century Australian male writers 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century South African male writers 20th-century South African novelists 20th-century translators 21st-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian novelists 21st-century South African male writers 21st-century South African novelists 21st-century translators Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists Afrikaner people Animal rights scholars Australian atheists Australian essayists Australian male novelists Australian Nobel laureates Australian opera librettists Australian people of Dutch descent Australian people of German descent Australian people of Polish descent Booker Prize winners