Damon Galgut

[Benny Profane]

I think funny that Damon Galgut is an author very discussed here and don't have a thread in his honour. ?

Well, he is a prodigious guy who wrote his first novel at 17 years old.

According to his page on wikipedia, he wrote (until the moment) 9 novels and 4 plays. There are 4 novels translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

Novels:

• A Sinless Season (Jonathan Ball, 1982)[11]
• Small Circle of Beings (Lowry Publishers, 1988)[11]
• The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (Scribner, 1991;[11] 1992 CNA Award[11])
• The Quarry (Viking, 1995)[11]
• The Good Doctor (Grove Press, 2004)[11]
• The Impostor (Atlantic Books, 2008)[36]
• In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books, 2010)[37]
• Arctic Summer (2014)[38]
• The Promise (2021)[39]

Plays:

• Echoes of Anger (1983)[11]
• Party for Mother[11]
• Alive and Kicking[11]
• The Green’s Keeper[11]

He was the winner of 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise and the winner of 2004 Commowealth Writers Prize for his novel The Good Doctor.

Edit: Here is a thread for discussing of In a Strange Room.

 

[kpjayan]

Few of us here likes his writing. The Promise and The Good Doctor were really really good. I've red The Quarry and In a Strange Room, which to me wasnt as good as the other two..

 

[Ben Jackson]

His works, highly experimental and with a modernistic outlook, tend to look at life in post-apartheid South Africa.

Influences:

Patrick White, Virginia Woolf, Faulkner, E M Forster

Key Works:

The Promise (2021)
The Good Doctor (2004)
Arctic Summer (2014)
In a Stranger Room (2010)

 

[tiganeasca]

Few of us here likes his writing. The Promise and The Good Doctor were really really good. I've red The Quarry and In a Strange Room, which to me wasnt as good as the other two..

I have ordered The Promise and so cannot say what I think but I thought both The Good Doctor AND The Quarry were good books. Jayan has impeccable taste, is extremely well-read, and is right 99% of the time. His judgment of The Quarry, however.... ?

 

[kpjayan]

Damon Galgut is here at the Jaipur Literary Festival..

from his interview..

Damon Galgut – “It’s much easier to oppress people you don’t see as fully human”

At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024, the South African author who won the Booker Prize in 2021 talks about writing in different literary forms, how politics shows up in his work, and how, though novels don’t change the world, they do make a difference to human perception

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