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Damon Galgut

South Africa (b.1963)

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

Awards: Booker (2021) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   A Sinless Season (1985)
   A Small Circle of Beings (1988)
   The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991)
   The Quarry (1995)
   The Good Doctor (2003)
   The Impostor (2008)
   In a Strange Room (2010)
   Arctic Summer (2014)
   The Promise (2021)

Books containing stories by Damon Galgut

Writing On the Edge (2010)
Great Contemporary Writers On the Front Line of Crisis
edited by
Dan Crowe

The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories (1997)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Peter Burton

Awards

2021 Booker Prize : The Promise

Award nominations

	2022 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Promise
	2015 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : Arctic Summer
	2010 Booker Prize (shortlist) : In a Strange Room
	2005 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Good Doctor
	2003 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut recommends

God's Children Are Little Broken Things (2022)
Arinze Ifeakandu
"Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant new talent."

Burntcoat (2021)
Sarah Hall
"Sarah Hall makes language shimmer and burn. She's not afraid of big themes and has the talent to back up her ambition, but she's just as good at the intimate and domestic... One of the finest writers at work today."

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