Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut (born November 12, 1963 in Pretoria ) is a South African novelist and playwright who writes in the English language.

life and work

Galgut was diagnosed with cancer at the age of six and spent much of his childhood in hospital. He studied drama at the University of Cape Town . At 17, his first novel, A Sinless Season , was published. His battle with cancer shaped his next book, a collection of short stories called Small Circle of Beings (1988). The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991) won the CNA Prize, an important South African literary prize. The Quarry (1995) was made into a film.

It was only with the publication of The Good Doctor in 2003 that Galgut achieved greater notoriety. It was listed for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa region. His novel In a Strange Room was also nominated for the Booker Prize. In 2013, he was accepted as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2015 he received the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for Arctic Summer , a novel about EM Forster in India . Galgut lives in Cape Town .

Works

• A sinless season
• Small Circle of Beings
• The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
• The Good Doctor
• The Impostor
  • The cheater. Roman, translated from the English by Thomas Mohr. Manhattan, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-54649-7 .
• In a strange room
  • In strange rooms. Roman, from the English by Thomas Mohr, Manhattan, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-54675-6
• Arctic Summer
  • Arctic summer. Translated from the English by Thomas Mohr. Manhattan, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-54747-0 .

Plays

• Echoes of Angers
• Party for Mother
• Alive and kicking
• The Green's Keeper

Web links

• Literature by and about Damon Galgut in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary Members: Damon Galgut. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Damon Galgut and Jacob Dlamini Win the 2015 Sunday Times Literary Awards (English; with photo)