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Informationen zum Autor J. M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians , Life and Times of Michael K , Boyhood , Youth , Summertime , Disgrace , Diary of a Bad Year and The Childhood of Jesus . He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal , Sunset Park , Man in the Dark , The Brooklyn Follies , The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy , among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan . He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ( The Book of Illusions ) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ( The Music of Chance ). His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext Not long after! Auster received a letter from Coetzee! suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and! 'God willing! strike sparks off each other.' Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Extraordinary book. Times Literary Supplement You feel that Auster and Coetzee are addressing each other directly and honestly. Some of it is rather moving, and underpinning it all is genuine affection. Daily Telegraph Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time. Zusammenfassung Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee are respectively responsible for some of the great contemporary works of fiction: Auster's The New York Trilogy or Coetzee's Disgrace are only two of these authors' legendary works. In Here and Now , these remarkable thinkers are brought together in print for the first time. Although Auster and Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to Israel and Palestine, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now, and reflects two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page. ...
