Bilingual Spanish-English. Hardback. 11.5 x 18.5 cm. 64 pages.
The story in Spanish and English written by Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee as the culmination of his stay at the Museo del Prado, which took place between the end of June and mid-July 2023.
J. M. Coetzee wrote this story under the auspices of the Writing the Prado Fellowship organised by the Museo Nacional del Prado with the sponsorship of Fundación Loewe and in collaboration with Granta en español.
J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940. One of the world’s most renowned novelists, he is also a linguist, literary critic and translator. Upon awarding Coetzee the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, the Swedish Academy praised the “analytic brilliance” of his writing, noting that his “intellectual honesty erodes all basis of consolation.” Coetzee has also received the prestigious Booker Prize on two occasions.
A resident of Adelaide, Australia, he is attached to the University of Adelaide, and has held guest professorships at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities. In Spain, he received the Llibreter prize (2003) and the Reino de Redonda prize (2001), established by the writer Javier Marías, and his most recent novel, The Pole, is set in this country.
“The Museum Guard”, which Coetzee wrote as the inaugural Fellow of the Writing the Prado programme, features his celebrated alter ego, Elizabeth Costello.
