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Damon Galgut
Winning the Booker Prize for The Promise.
The Good Doctor · In a Strange Room
- Born
- 12 November 1963
- Birthplace
- Pretoria, South Africa
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Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut is a South African novelist whose stories examine uneasy relationships and the country’s changing social order.
Early life
Pretoria
Grew up in South Africa’s administrative capital.
Drama
Studied drama at the University of Cape Town.
Career
- 1982
First novel
Published A Sinless Season while still young.
- 2003
International breakthrough
The Good Doctor reached the Booker shortlist.
- 2021
Booker winner
Won the prize with The Promise.
Selected work
The Good Doctor
Set a tense relationship in a rural hospital.
In a Strange Room
Connected journeys with memory and desire.
The Promise
Followed a white family and an unfulfilled promise across decades.
Beyond work
Travel
Travel experiences have informed his writing.
Writing method
Drafts fiction by hand before transferring it to a computer.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Photo: Etonnants Voyageurs. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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