Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut is a South African writer, based in Cape Town. He has won a couple of prizes along the way and been shortlisted for a few more, including the Man Booker Prize (twice). He published his first novel when he was 17 years old and his ninth novel, The Promise, won the Booker Prize in 2021 ( https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-promise-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2021-9781529113877/9781529113877) .