Oak Tree Fine Press

J.M. Coetzee

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner has) and constructs representations of people slipping their chains and turning their faces to the light."

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the only author to have twice won the Booker Prize, J. M. Coetzee is widely celebrated as one of our greatest living authors. In the J. M. Coetzee Series, we are proud to publish key extracts from all his novels in a series of uniquely collectable hand bound volumes. Each book is beautifully laid out and presented in a choice of black cloth or leather, and signed to the title page by this highly elusive author.

The J.M. Coetzee series

• Dusklands: The Vietnam project (1974)
• In the Heart of the Country (1977) - Available Autumn 2008
• Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
• Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
• Foe (1986)
• Age of Iron (1990)
• The Master of Petersburg (1994)
• Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997)
• Disgrace (1999)
• The Lives of Animals (1999)
• Youth (2002)
• Elizabeth Costello (2003)
• Slow Man (2005)
• Diary of a Bad Year (2007)

"J.M. Coetzee's novels are characterised by their well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical brilliance. But at the same time he is a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilisation..It is in exploring weakness and defeat that Coetzee captures the divine spark in man."
The Swedish Academy Nobel Press Release

Nobel Prize site for J. M. Coetzee

Guardian site for J. M. Coetzee

New York Times page for J. M. Coetzee