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Damon Galgut was born on 12 November, 1963 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a South African writer (born 1963). Discover Damon Galgut's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Novelist · playwright
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 12 November, 1963
Birthday 12 November
Birthplace Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1963

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.

His father was from a Jewish family and his mother converted to Judaism.

At the age of six, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.

1981

Galgut was head boy of Pretoria Boys High School, matriculating in 1981.

He then studied drama at the University of Cape Town.

1982

Galgut wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season (1982), when he was 17.

1988

His next book, a collection of short stories called Small Circle of Beings (1988), includes an eponymous novella that describes a mother's struggle with her son's illness.

1990

He has lived in Cape Town since the early 1990s.

He is a keen traveller and wrote much of The Good Doctor in a hotel in Goa.

He describes himself as "obsessed" with yoga, and for some time did not own a car or a television.

Galgut has a "fetish around stationery" and writes longhand on notebooks first rather than on a typewriter or computer.

After two complete drafts, he then transfers it to the computer.

He has used a particular tortoiseshell Parker fountain pen since he was about 20.

1991

His novel The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991) won the Central News Agency Literary Award in 1992.

1995

His next novel, The Quarry (1995), was made into a feature film, with a 1998 release.

2003

After The Good Doctor, his fifth novel, was published in 2003, Galgut's work became better known outside South Africa.

The story of two contrasting characters in a remote, rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa, The Good Doctor was enthusiastically received by critics.

It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book: Africa (2003).

2010

His novel In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize for fiction.

Reviewing the novel in The Guardian, Jan Morris wrote, "I doubt if any book in 2010 will contain more memorable evocations of place than In a Strange Room."

She described In a Strange Room as a "beautiful" book that is "strikingly conceived and hauntingly written".

2014

His 2014 Arctic Summer presents a fictionalized account, “drawn with fidelity to the historical persona of the English novelist”, of the middle years in the life of novelist E. M. Forster, focusing on Forster’s years in India and Alexandria.

The novel, “a remarkable, lyrical tribute to the remarkable nature of [Forster’s] understanding as a human being and as an artist”, was short-listed for the Walter Scott Prize.

Galgut's novel The Promise won the 2021 Booker Prize, making him the third writer from South Africa to win the Booker, following Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, who has won twice.

Galgut says the theme of the book is time.

The original idea came from a conversation with a friend, who is the last surviving member of his family, and told Galgut about the funerals he had attended for his mother, father, brother, and sister.

In addition to his novels, Galgut has written several plays.

At the time of his Booker win, Galgut was working on a collection of short stories.

Galgut is gay and has stated that this leads him to focus on more male-oriented relationships in his writing.

Galgut credits the Roald Dahl short story "Pig" as having had the greatest influence on his writing.

2020

A second feature film version was released in 2020.