Damon Galgut

GALGUT, Damon (1963-) Playwright, actor, novelist. While still at Pretoria Boys’ High School, wrote No. 1 Utopia Lane, for which he won a prize at the 1981 SACEE One-act Play Festivals. He then produced an award-winning novel (A Sinless Season, 1982). After completing his National Service in the South African army he was appointed resident writer for PACT in Pretoria. He left PACT to go abroad, then returned to study drama at University of Cape Town in 198*, becoming an actor for CAPAB for a while and teaching at the University. Other plays are Echoes of Anger (1983), Alive and Kicking (1984) and A Party for Mother (1986). In 1988 a second novel, A Small Circle of Friends appeared and in 2003 The Good Doctor. In 2010 his novel In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His novel Arctic Summer based on the life of E.M. Forster was published in 2014. ** (See De Beer, 1995, Gosher, 1988**) [TH, JH]

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