Friday / 15 December 2021 Damon Galgut: ‘If one loves South Africa it has to be a dark kind of love’ Damon Galgut, who was born in Pretoria in 1963 and lives in Cape Town, has been writing fiction since he was 17. Last month his novel, The Promise, won the Booker Prize. Imraan Coovadia talked to Galgut about his winning novel By Imraan Coovadia