Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut
Damon Galgutis an award-winning South African playwright and novelist...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 November 1963
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.