![]() ![]() “I have been frustrated by these endless comparisons because it feels a little bit easy and lazy to me,” says Galgut in a video interview from Cape Town, where he lives. ![]() For long, well-meaning critics in the West have compared him to his compatriot JM Coetzee, who made history by becoming the first writer to have received the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999. Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize win for his portrayal of racism and injustice done to a Black maid by her Afrikaner employers in his ninth novel, The Promise, has kindled in him the hope that his work will stand on its own.
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