Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut is a South African novelist and playwright whose fiction has received sustained international recognition. He won the 2021 Booker Prize for The Promise, while earlier novels The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room were also shortlisted for the Booker. Penguin’s current author biography describes a body of nine novels and places him in Cape Town.

Damon Galgut is a South African novelist and playwright whose fiction has received sustained international recognition. He won the 2021 Booker Prize for The Promise, while earlier novels The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room were also shortlisted for the Booker. Penguin’s current author biography describes a body of nine novels and places him in Cape Town.