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A Book of Friends is a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee
on his eightieth birthday.
It includes contributions from some of Coetzee’s friends and contemporaries,
and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades.
Stretching from the Americas to South Africa to Australia, A Book of Friends pays homage to friendship, literature
and the work of one of the most extraordinary writers of our time.
Publication date: 10 February 2020, C-format paperback, AUS $32.99 NZ $38.00
In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday
A Book of Friends
AKWE AMOSU PAUL AUSTER RICK BARNEY
SHANNON BURNS BRIAN CASTRO ADAM CHANG
CARROL CLARKSON DAVID COETZEE INGRID DE KOK
MARIANA DIMÓPULOS C. J. DRIVER
DOROTHY DRIVER KAI EASTON
PETER GOLDSWORTHY EVA HORNUNG
SIRI HUSTVEDT GAIL JONES NICHOLAS JOSE
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE ANTJIE KROG
JONATHAN LEAR PEDRO MAIRAL DAVID MALOUF OLIVER MAYO
RAJEND MESTHRIE MICHAEL MORLEY ROGER PALMER ROBERT PIPPIN
CARLOS RAFAEL RUTA JENNIFER RUTHERFORD SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN ANNA KAZUMI STAHL CARRIE TIFFANY
LUISA VALENZUELA
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK IVAN VLADISLAVIC´
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