Damon Galgut

Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Eswatini)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 12 Nov 1963
Activity 1982-ongoing

Places

Born in South Africa
Active in South Africa

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Born in Pretoria in 1963, South African author Damon Galgut currently lives in Cape Town and writes theatre plays, short stories, novels and, thus far, a single film script. After his studies in Drama at the University of Cape Town, he wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, published in 1982, when he was only 19 years old. Immediately, this work was compared to Golding’s Lord of the Flies as it tells the story of three juvenile delinquents sent to a reformatory school in remote part of the South African coast and includes the death of one of the boys in suspicious circumstances. The novel was hailed as being of exception sensitivity (von Hirschberg) and sharp intelligence (Ronge), and critics anticipated the …

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Citation: Ferreira-Meyers, Karen. "Damon Galgut". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 August 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13340, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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