Good Doctor Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE
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Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2021 The Promise won the Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.<b>'The bold, fresh voice of South African fiction' </b>
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<b>'A latter day <i>Heart of Darkness</i>' </b>
- Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
<b>'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this novel is very hard to put down' </b>
- Russell Celyn Jones, The Times
<b>'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel' </b>
- Christopher Hope, Guardian
<b>'A gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and </b><b>Damon Galgut</b><b>'s extraordinary vision' </b>
- Julie Wheelwright, Independent
<b>'As good as Graham Greene' </b>
- Joan Bakewell, Sunday Times
<b>'Should have won the Booker.'</b>
- Norman Lebrecht, Books of the Year, Evening Standard