Damon Galgut: South Africa’s Broken Promise
- Tue 16 Aug 19:00 - 20:00
- Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court
- Captioned
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In 2021, nearly 40 years after his first novel was published, Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for The Promise. With typical humility, Galgut said that while he’s grateful for the win, it ‘creates an artificial popularity that will take a while to fade’. Today’s event is an opportunity to see that his popularity is entirely merited. He discusses his writing and the complexities of post-Apartheid South Africa.
Categories: Fiction, Race, World Voices
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