The Nobel Prize winner for Literature J. M. Coetzee (Cape Town, 1940), author of titles such as The Iron Age, Misfortune or Elizabeth Costello, will carry out a three-week residency at the Prado Museum (from the end of June to mid-July), at from which he will write a new text related to his experience in the Madrid art gallery. The experience, which is now being launched by the South African author, is part of the Escribir el Prado project, a joint initiative with the Loewe Foundation that invites internationally renowned writers to question the museum's collections from their narrative imagination.
During his stay, Coetzee will have the opportunity to get to know the museum's collections in depth, for which, in addition to being able to move freely through its rooms, he will be able to access the workshops, consult bibliographies and hold meetings with specialists, curators, technicians and restorers, as well as the rest of the museum staff. According to the note released by the museum, the author will establish his residence in Madrid "making the museum his center of activity and also of contemplation." The resulting text will be published by the museum and Granta magazine.
JM Coetzee, one of the greatest living authors, has to his credit nineteen narrative works, as well as numerous texts of literary and cultural criticism and translations. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, he has also been awarded the Booker Prize twice. He resides in Australia, where he teaches at the University of Adelaide, and has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford.
