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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
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