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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday
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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 summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preface, Dorothy Driver , single work essay
'A Book of Friends is a gift to John Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It's not simply a tribute to him, as writer and thinker, in the oblique, complimentary manner of the Festschrift, although it is certainly that too. Rather, it is a gift of love, from myself, its editor and his life-companion over four decades, and from a few of those whose creative work and conversations John has admired and enjoyed in the regions where he has lived or worked.' 

(Introduction)

(p. 1-2)
Introduction, Jonathan Lear , single work essay (p. 3-6)
Returningi"To see your brother step through", Akwe Amosu , single work single work poetry (p. 7)
From : Burning Boy Notes of Stephen Crane, Paul Auster , single work essay (p. 8-19)
Where's John?, Shannon Burns , single work essay (p. 20-23)
From The Slow Derangement, Brian Castro , single work essay (p. 24-36)
Literary Non-Sites, Carrol Clarkson , single work essay (p. 37-44)
Two Poems, Ingrid de Kok , single work essay (p. 45-47)
Puente / Brucke / Bridge, Mariana Dimopulos , single work essay (p. 48-59)
A Sort of Prayer, C. J. Driver , single work essay (p. 60-61)
What's It like to Be an Old Bat?, Peter Goldsworthy , single work essay (p. 62-66)
From The Sound of Water Only, Eva Hornung , single work essay (p. 67-82)
Remembering Women, Siri Hustvedt , single work essay (p. 83-90)
From Our Shadows, Gail Jones , single work essay (p. 91-98)
Evvy After, Nicholas Jose , single work essay (p. 99-109)
In Die Veld Naby Leeu-Gamka, Antjie Krog , single work essay (p. 110-111)
Road Trip, Pedro Mairal , single work essay (p. 112-117)
Three Poems, David Malouf , single work essay (p. 118-120)
In Conversation, Oliver Mayo , single work essay (p. 121-126)
Onoma and Anomie, Rajend Mesthrie , single work essay (p. 127-135)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

[Review] A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday Timothy J. Mehigan , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: A/b : Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 36 no. 2 2021; (p. 501-505)

— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology prose

'J. M. Coetzee, one of the most important writers alive today, has turned eighty. A valuable book of diverse writings and artwork, assembled by Dorothy Driver, Coetzee’s life-companion of more than forty years, records the significance of this event. The volume presents a homage to a major writer by his friends—friends who have formed close associations with Coetzee over the course of a long life spent in various locations: the South Africa of Coetzee’s birth, first and foremost, but also the Australia to which Coetzee emigrated with Driver in 2002 and the Argentina that played host to several visits between 2014 and 2017. Mention should also be made of Coetzee’s regular extended stays at the University of Chicago between the mid-1990s and 2003. Not only did these stays allow the writer to forge a durable alliance with that institution and its colleagues (two of whom are represented in this volume); they also serve as a reminder of the importance of the academy in Coetzee’s writing as a whole. Several of those contributing to this volume, accordingly, are academics working at a range of institutions across the world. The coming together, indeed, of thirty-seven academic writers and creative artists in an alphabetically arranged compendium of essayistic reflection, stories, poems, and visual composition speaks to the wide-ranging, polyglot influences in which Coetzee’s writing is steeped and on which in so many ways it depends.' (Introduction)

The Man Within Geordie Williamson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 February 2020; (p. 20)

— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology prose

'Friends of JM Coetzee have marked the Nobel laureate’s 80th birthday in ways that suggest his unique place in the literary world, writes Geordie Williamson'

The Man Within Geordie Williamson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 February 2020; (p. 20)

— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology prose

'Friends of JM Coetzee have marked the Nobel laureate’s 80th birthday in ways that suggest his unique place in the literary world, writes Geordie Williamson'

[Review] A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday Timothy J. Mehigan , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: A/b : Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 36 no. 2 2021; (p. 501-505)

— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology prose

'J. M. Coetzee, one of the most important writers alive today, has turned eighty. A valuable book of diverse writings and artwork, assembled by Dorothy Driver, Coetzee’s life-companion of more than forty years, records the significance of this event. The volume presents a homage to a major writer by his friends—friends who have formed close associations with Coetzee over the course of a long life spent in various locations: the South Africa of Coetzee’s birth, first and foremost, but also the Australia to which Coetzee emigrated with Driver in 2002 and the Argentina that played host to several visits between 2014 and 2017. Mention should also be made of Coetzee’s regular extended stays at the University of Chicago between the mid-1990s and 2003. Not only did these stays allow the writer to forge a durable alliance with that institution and its colleagues (two of whom are represented in this volume); they also serve as a reminder of the importance of the academy in Coetzee’s writing as a whole. Several of those contributing to this volume, accordingly, are academics working at a range of institutions across the world. The coming together, indeed, of thirty-seven academic writers and creative artists in an alphabetically arranged compendium of essayistic reflection, stories, poems, and visual composition speaks to the wide-ranging, polyglot influences in which Coetzee’s writing is steeped and on which in so many ways it depends.' (Introduction)

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