The family earns its living from the farm and from the main family business, a reptile park. The couple has three children – Anton, Astrid, and Amor.
The family live on a farm just outside of Pretoria and was comprised of five members, with Manie as the patriarch, and Rachel the matriarch. Galgut’s ninth novel, and his first in seven years, The Promise charts the history of an Afrikaner family, the Swarts. It was not a shabby group to be part of Gordimer and Coetzee are, after all, Nobel Laureates in Literature. Coetzee ( Life & Times of Michael K, 1983 and Disgrace, 1999). With this amazing feat, he became just the third South African writer to win the prestigious literary award, joining the elite company of Nadine Gordimer ( The Conservationist, 1974) and J.M. But then again, as they say, the third time’s a charm. It was a landmark moment for Galgut as it came after being shortlisted for the third time of the six shortlisted writers, he had received the most shortlisting. He would earn a second shortlisting in 2010 with In a Strange Room.Īs a writer, his greatest breakthrough finally came in 2021, when his latest novel, The Promise, won him the elusive Booker Prize for Fiction. He made his first global breakthrough in 2003 when his novel The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the prestigious literary award, Booker Prize. He kept earning accolades for his works, albeit at a local level. It opened more gates for the young writer whose works were critically praised. At the age of seventeen, he already managed to achieve a feat many of his peers were unable to do so: publishing his first novel.
The world of printed text fascinated him and it would be his gateway to a prolific career. To keep him occupied, they read him stories and books. Bedridden, he was nursed back to health by his family. When South African writer and playwright Damon Galgut was just six-years-old, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.
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