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born 1963 South Africa
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.
South Africa Novelists Playwrights Also known as: In a Strange Room, The Good Doctor (novel), The Promise (Galgut novel)
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He knows that he is beautiful and somehow this makes him ugly.
In a Strange Room (2010)
All the images and impressions and countries and continents he'd vised had been erased. What you don't remember never happened.
In a Strange Room (2010)
The first time I saw him I thought, he won't last.
The Good Doctor (2004)
And maybe that is the true reason for this journey, by shedding all the ballast of the familiar life they are each trying to recapture a sensation of weightlessness they remember but perhaps never lived, in memory more than anywhere else traveling is like free-fall, or flight.
In a Strange Room (2010)
Innovation and change: it was one of her key phrases, a mantra she liked to repeat. But it was empty. Ruth Ngema would go to great lengths to avoid any innovation or change, because who knew what might follow on?"
The Good Doctor (2004)
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were.
In a Strange Room (2010)
So for a while I had two lives: one that was empty and adrift, in the hospital by day and another that was illicit and intense, by the side of the road at night. The one had nothing to do with the other.
The Good Doctor (2004)
The moment the metal box speaks her name, she knows it’s happened. She’s been in a tense, headachy mood all day, almost like she had a warning in a dream but can’t remember what it is. Some sign or image, just under the surface. Trouble down below. Fire underground.
The Promise (2021)