JM Coetzee and Anna Funder read from their work and discuss the craft of writing with Jon Cook, former Dean of Faculty for Creative Writing at UEA.
Worlds Literature Festival 2015 welcomes novelists, poets, memoirists, biographers, critics, teachers and translators from across the globe to take part in a residential week of public readings, private salons and talks in Norwich UNESCO City of Literature.
JM Coetzee gives the opening provocation at Worlds Literature Festival Salon. He discusses narrative and stories, focussed around the theme of ‘Fiction, Memoir and the Self’.
JM Coetzee is a novelist, literary critic and translator. His work includes Waiting For the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
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