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   Damon Galgut (born 12 November 1963) is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, having previously been shortlisted for the award in 2003 and 2010.

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3. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › damon-galgutDamon Galgut - Literature - British Council

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   Learn about the life and works of Damon Galgut, a South African playwright and novelist. Explore his themes, styles, awards and critical perspective.

   • Place Of Birth: Pretoria, South Africa

   • Works For: Atlantic Books

4. thebookerprizes.com › authors › damon-galgutDamon Galgut | The Booker Prizes

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   Learn about Damon Galgut, the South African novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2021 for The Promise. Find out his biography, books, awards, videos and more on this web page.

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6. www.penguin.co.uk › articles › 2022Damon Galgut interview: 'I have faith that novels will survive'

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   Feb 28, 2022 · Damon Galgut talks about his life, his novel The Promise, and his views on African writing and politics in this Penguin article. He reflects on his childhood in apartheid Pretoria, his writing process, and his faith in novels.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2021/11/03 › booksDamon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’

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   Nov 3, 2021 · Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’. The novelist, shortlisted for two of his previous books, received one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for his cutting...

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8. www.goodreads.com › author › showDamon Galgut (Author of The Promise) - Goodreads

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   Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor.

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   Who is Damon Galgut?

   • Damon Galgut (born 12 November 1963) is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, having previously been shortlisted for the award in 2003 and 2010. Galgut was born on 12 November 1963 in Pretoria, South Africa.

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   Is Damon Galgut a satirist?

   • “The Promise,” published in the United States in April, is Damon Galgut’s ninth book. A review of “The Promise” in The New York Times Book Review called Galgut “a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.”

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   Why was Damon Galgut shortlisted for the Booker Prize?

   • When the South African writer Damon Galgut learned that his novel, “ The Promise ,” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he was filled with anxiety. Galgut had been shortlisted twice before, in 2003 and 2010, and both times, the stress of the nominations “probably shaved a few years off my life.”

   Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’

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   How old was Damon Galgut when he started writing?

   • “I had no doubt, from a much earlier age than my first publication, that I was a writer,” says Damon Galgut. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise is 58, but published his first novel, A Sinless Season, at just 17. “I think it was the third or fourth novel I’d written at that point,” he says.

   Damon Galgut interview: 'I have faith that novels will survive'

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   What are some quotes by Damon Galgut?

   • Quotes by Damon Galgut (?) “If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.” “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made.

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   What is Galgut's 'the promise'?

   • The Promise , Galgut’s eighth published novel, is the work of a novelist at the peak of his powers.

   Damon Galgut interview: 'I have faith that novels will survive'

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10. www.nytimes.com › review › damon-galgut-promiseA Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams

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    Apr 15, 2021 · For three decades the South African writer Damon Galgut has been assessing his country through scrutiny of its white people. His prior novels include the Booker Prize finalist “The Good Doctor,”...