In one of this author's novels, the title character is found growing pumpkins before he is taken to a hospital in which he refuses to speak. In another novel by this author, the narrator is hung from a tree by his wrists for returning a mutilated girl to her village. In that novel by this author of Life and Times of Michael K, Colonel Joll's brutality shocks the Magistrate out of complacency. This author also described how poems by Wordsworth and Byron torment David Lurie during his affair with 
In one of this author's novels, the title character is found growing pumpkins before he is taken to a hospital in which he refuses to speak. In another novel by this author, the narrator is hung from a tree by his wrists for returning a mutilated girl to her village. In that novel by this author of Life and Times of Michael K, Colonel Joll's brutality shocks the Magistrate out of complacency. This author also described how poems by Wordsworth and Byron torment David Lurie during his affair with a student. For 10 points, name this South African author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace.
In one of this author's novels, the title character is found growing pumpkins before he is taken to a hospital in which he refuses to speak.
John Maxwell Coetzee