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As he enters his ‘wise old man’ era, the former ‘wunderkind’ composer-playwright-performer delves deep into optimism, kindness and his lifelong aversion to disappointing people

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

Coetzee’s purist approach to storytelling strikes a chord in this novella and five tales

What does a writer’s education look like? Is it access to books, regular letter-writing, difficulty in childhood (war, illness, a brutal boarding school)? What talent or disposition primes the young writer for their training? In the push and pull of nature versus nurture, a key element is the right teacher,…

With his bravura new novella, one of six stories in this collection, the Nobel prize winner proves once again that he is a master of his craft

For 50 years the Nobel laureate and double Booker prize winner has been dividing opinion with his novels on power, humanity, war, the death of ‘Jesus’ and dogs – many dogs

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

The immense artistry in Lara Foot’s staging succeeds in finding the emotional essence of JM Coetzee’s story of a humble man who endures pitiless treatment

The Nobel laureate’s new collection of stories is concerned with death, desire and old age, glinting with flashes of humour and grand, existential strangeness