Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut is a South African born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His novel The Quarry was made into a film, which he himself co-scripted and which was released theatrically in 1998. His novels In a Strange Room and The Good Doctor were shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010, and his novel The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. His other books include Small Circle of Beings and The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, and he is also the author of the plays Echoes of Anger, Party for Mother, Alive and Kicking, and The Green’s Keeper.