For 10 points, name this South African author of Life & Times of Michael K and Waiting for the Barbarians.
One of this author's novels features the ambitious writer Susan Barton, while another of his works sees Melanie pursued romantically by her professor David Lurie. This author of Foe and Disgrace wrote a novel in which the Third Bureau takes over a town during a state of emergency. One of his novels depicts the protagonist attempting to take his mother Anna K. back to her birthplace before she dies, but a better-known novel by this author sees Colonel Joll torture and interrogate a barbarian woman and a magistrate. For 10 points, name this South African author of Life & Times of Michael K and Waiting for the Barbarians.
One of this author's novels features the ambitious writer Susan Barton, while another of his works sees Melanie pursued romantically by her professor David Lurie.
John Maxwell Coetzee