This creator of Elizabeth Costello wrote novels about a professor who regularly meets with the prostitute Soraya but loses his job after a charge of sexual harassment and about a harelipped gardener who takes his mother's ashes to St. Albert.
This author's first novel is divided into two parts, the first of which ends with Martin being stabbed by a man who writes a report on Vietnam War propaganda named Eugene Dawn. He also created a character that moves in with the bedridden amputee Paul Rayment in one novel and, in another, becomes famous for The House on Eccles Street. This creator of Elizabeth Costello wrote novels about a professor who regularly meets with the prostitute Soraya but loses his job after a charge of sexual harassment and about a harelipped gardener who takes his mother's ashes to St. Albert. For 10 points, name this author who won Booker Prizes for Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K.
This author's first novel is divided into two parts, the first of which ends with Martin being stabbed by a man who writes a report on Vietnam War propaganda named Eugene Dawn.
John Maxwell Coetzee