This man wrote a novel about a magistrate of the Empire and his encounter with the sunglass-wearing Colonel Joll, and wrote another novel in which an affair with a student causes David Lurie to lose his job.
In one novel by this author, the narrator finds 256 small wooden slips with unexplainable markings while excavating ruins in the desert. In another novel by this author, Anna is carried to a hospital in a wheelbarrow by her son, a gardener with a cleft lip. This man wrote a novel about a magistrate of the Empire and his encounter with the sunglass-wearing Colonel Joll, and wrote another novel in which an affair with a student causes David Lurie to lose his job. For 10 points, name this South African born author of Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K., and Disgrace.
In one novel by this author, the narrator finds 256 small wooden slips with unexplainable markings while excavating ruins in the desert.
J(ohn) M(axwell) Coetzee