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New page: Damon Galgut’s novel ‘The Promise’, which won the Booker Prize in 2021, has been brought to life on stage by Sylvaine Strike. Photo: Claude Barnardo
CAN THEMBA

Novel role for literature on stage

Compelling, popular theatre adaptations distil the very essence of written stories for audiences

  • Greg Homann
5 min read
Damon Galgut’s lauded novel ‘The Promise’ has been adapted into a play, set to hit local stages later this year
BOOKER PRIZE

Damon Galgut’s The Promise to hit the stage

Lauded novel has been adapted into a play, set to hit local stages later this year

  • Kimberley Schoeman
8 min read
A man wears a traditional Kankurang mask along the beach in the popular tourist area of Senegambia in Banjul on December 6, 2021. (Photo: John Wessels/AFP)
ABDALLA HAMDOK

The Continent: Africa A-Z of 2021

The highlights of 2021 in Africa

  • Samira Sawlani
  • The Continent
9 min read
A brief epic: South African author Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction. He has been shortlisted on two previous occasions — in 2003 and 2010 — and won it with his ninth book, The Promise. Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
DAMON GALGUT

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…

  • Imraan Coovadia
13 min read
Tableau: Dr Ainehi Edoro, professor of African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder and publisher of literary platform Brittle Paper, hopes the list of 50 Notable African Books will inspire readers to read more books from writers on the continent. (Photo: Nicole Bitonti)
50 NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOKS

The Portfolio: Celebrating a great year in African writing

Brittle Paper’s 50 Notable African Books is the product of extensive year-round reportage

  • Ainehi Edoro
2 min read
Abdulrazak Gurnah distils the precarious experience of the exile, the refugee and the asylum seeker into his novels. (Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images)
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent

Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

  • Idowu Omoyele
9 min read
DAMON GALGUT

SA author boycotts Sri Lankan literary festival

SA novelist and playwright Damon Galgut has boycotted a literary festival in Sri Lanka because of concerns over the country’s rights record.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BOOKER PRIZE

SA’s Damon Galgut nominated for Booker Prize

South African author Damon Galgut has been nominated for a Booker Prize for his novel, <i>In a Strange Room</i>.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BOOK REVIEWS

The strangest of rooms and places

The opening and closing lines of <em>In a Strange Room </em> are like the opposite sides of an entry/exit sign.

  • Chris Roper
3 min read
DAMON GALGUT

Galgut delivers the goods

The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviews new fiction by Damon Galgut, Michael Stanley and Tim Winton.

  • Jane Rosenthal
9 min read