John Maxwell Coetzee (1940) is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also won the Booker Prize (twice), the Jerusalem Prize, the CNA Prize (three times), the Prix Femina, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, among other awards and honors. He holds a number of honorary doctorates and is one of the most acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. Coetzee himself adapted his novel Waiting for the Barbarians for the screen. This is his first screenplay. Special Guests 2019 Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Special Guests in Other Editions Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
John Maxwell Coetzee (1940) is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also won the Booker Prize (twice), the Jerusalem Prize, the CNA Prize (three times), the Prix Femina, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, among other awards and honors. He holds a number of honorary doctorates and is one of the most acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. Coetzee himself adapted his novel Waiting for the Barbarians for the screen. This is his first screenplay.
