Professor David Peimer
Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee: How His Post Apartheid Novel “Disgrace” Speaks to Us Today Globally
Summary
Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee is a remarkable, insightful, and fantastically focused writer. Despite this, there can be a stereotype that his work is depressing and barren. In this lecture, Professor David Peimer explains why he finds that stereotype to be untrue and goes on to share how and why Coetzee’s novel inspires him to feel, think, imagine, and see nuance and real complexity in human life.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.