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Arts & Literature
Damon Galgut
Who
Damon Galgut · Arts & Literature
What
Author
When
1963, Pretoria, South Africa
Where
South Africa
Biography
Damon Galgut is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author
How & why
Damon Galgut is a South African novelist and playwright who won the 2021 Booker Prize for 'The Promise,' a family saga tracing the decline of a white Afrikaner family across the arc of post-apartheid South Africa; he had been shortlisted twice before. He is of Jewish heritage: his father came from a Jewish family and his mother converted to Judaism. He wrote his first novel at seventeen and lives in Cape Town.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Authors
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