The 100 best novels: No 99 – Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)
In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation
January 2012
10 of the best
John Mullan's 10 of the best: seductions
Chaucer to Coetzee
December 2009
Disgrace
John Malkovich draws impressively on the unease of post-apartheid South Africa in this adaptation of JM Coetzee's prize-winning novel Disgrace, writes Philip French
November 2009
Is the film of JM Coetzee's Booker-winner Disgrace a success?
Theo Tait on the film of JM Coetzee's Disgrace
June 2002
Book club
Pointing the way
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Review Book Club: Disgrace
Review Book Club: Disgrace
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Present and correct
May 2000
Bragg bests Coetzee in final prize
Melvyn Bragg's The Soldier's Return has beaten JM Coetzee's much-feted Disgrace, winner of the Booker and Commonwealth awards, in the 42nd and final WH Smith Literary Award.
October 1999
Absent Coetzee wins surprise second Booker award
The Booker prize threw up one of its greatest surprises last night when the South African writer J M Coetzee won for the second time, for his book Disgrace. He is the only novelist to have won the prestigious award twice.