Link to the Show / Show NotesCredit: book.co.za
Damon Galgut is a writer based in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season (1984), when he was seventeen. Small Circle of Beings (1988), a collection of short stories, was followed by The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991), the story of a young white man on military service who suffers a nervous breakdown. The Quarry (1995), was made into a film by a Belgian production company. The Good Doctor
(2003), is set in post-Apartheid South Africa, and explores the
relationship between two different men working in a deserted, rural
hospital. It won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region)
and was shortlisted for both the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and
the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His latest novel
is The Impostor (2008).
We
talk here about national and personal trauma, corruption and
realpolitik, the shadow of J.M. Coetzee, South African literature as
boundaried by massive inequalities, childhood cancer, ambiguity, the
new class system, real world maturity and the need for compromise.
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