Release Date: October 16, 2002 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Award-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee, a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty member from 1968-71, will deliver the Edward H. Butler Chair Prose Reading at 8 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
A native of South Africa, Coetzee twice has won the Booker Prize, Great Britain's highest award for fiction, for his post-colonial novels "The Life and Times of Michael K." (1984) and "Disgrace" (1999).
In conjunction with Coetzee's appearance, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Libraries has organized an exhibit of the author's work in Lockwood Library, North Campus.
In addition, the Libraries will present two supporting programs the day before Coetzee's reading.
A brown-bag lunch video screening of the 1997 documentary "Gerrie & Louise" will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Friends Room in Lockwood Library. The film tells the story of Louise Flanagan, chief investigator of the Truth Commission in the Eastern Cape Province, and her husband, Gerrie Hugo, a seasoned veteran of apartheid South Africa's army. The film will be introduced by Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science.
Later that day, from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Reading Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus, a discussion of Coetzee's works will be held. Among the participants will be Hershini Bhana and UB faculty members Mark Shechner, professor of English; Shaun Irlam, associate professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and Carine Mardorossian, assistant professor of English.