Novelist
J. M. Coetzee
South African Australian novelist of Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians, twice a Booker winner and a Nobel laureate.
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the Central News Agency Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
- Born
- 1940-02-09, Cape Town, South AfricaA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Pisces
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1940-02-09, Cape Town, South Africa · time unknown, noon chart
Africa/Johannesburgthe zone used then
Africa/JohannesburgThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 19°30′ | Direct |
| Moon | Pisces | 1°30′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 26°03′ | Direct |
| Venus | Pisces | 26°35′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 24°47′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aries | 7°34′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 26°05′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 18°03′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 25°01′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 1°23′ | Retrograde |
J. M. Coetzee is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment J. M. Coetzee was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.