A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"South African wins Booker prize", The Times, 27 Oct 1983, p. 1 The Times Digital Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CS17665371/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=628ca550. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

The Booker McConnell prize for fiction was awarded last night to J. M. Coetzee for Life and Times of Michael K, published by Secker and Warburg... Mr Coetzee wins the prize of 10,000 and considerable prestige for his political novel about South Africa... Mr Coetzee was born in Cape Town in 1940 and educated in South Africa and the United States. Trained as a computer scientist and linguist, he teaches linguistics and American literature at the University of Cape Town.