Damon Galgut

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Claire Lowdon |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Damon Galgut

Han Kang was born in Gwangju in South Korea in 1970. Her family moved to Seoul four months before the Gwangju uprising, which took place in May 1980, during which the South Korean military violently suppressed student-led democratic protests and massacred up to 2,300 people. Han Kang researched the subject extensively for Human Acts (TLS, March 25, 2016; translated by Deborah Smith), now widely considered her masterwork.

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Damon Galgut |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Claire Lowdon

Despite its shocking subject matter (rape, incest, suicide), Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (TLS, June 14, 2013), was largely critiqued in terms of its use of language. That said, the violence McBride wreaked on sentences was also, in its way, quite shocking. The opening paragraph gives a flavour: For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes, you. Bounce the bed, I’d say. I’d say that’s what you did.

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Nicholas Clee |Damon Galgut |Keith Hopper |Houman Barekat

Can a circle, a two-dimensional object, deepen as well as enlarge? Can the façade of a church be “toothsome”? These and similar questions may occur to readers of Adrian Duncan’s third novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth. The book opens in “this small city of I”, presumably not named as Innsbruck because Duncan has transferred there from Berlin a statue of the Romantic figures Achim and Bettina von Arnim.

Jan 14, 2025 | lesen.de | Damon Galgut |Elif Shafak |Cormac McCarthy |George Eliot

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. 'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.

Aug 31, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Paul Lynch |Shehan Karunatilaka |Damon Galgut |Douglas Stuart

The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, with the aim of stimulating public interest in contemporary fiction. It was loosely based on France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt. At first, the prize was only open to writers from the British Commonwealth; it has subsequently been extended to all Anglophone writers. The prize ceremony, when the winner is announced, is broadcast live on the BBC, and even a short-listing for the prize has an enormous—even life-changing—impact on an author’s career.