Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut (born 12 November 1963 in Pretoria) is a South African novelist and playwright. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, at seventeen, and his 2003 novel The Good Doctor brought him international recognition, earning a Booker Prize shortlisting and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book: Africa.

He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize again in 2010 for In a Strange Room, and won the prize in 2021 for The Promise — becoming the third South African writer to win it, after Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. He lives in Cape Town.